William Huntington Kirkpatrick
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William Huntington Kirkpatrick (October 2, 1885–November 28, 1970) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
William H. Kirkpatrick (son of William Sebring Kirkpatrick) was born in Easton, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, in 1905 and attended the law department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1905 and 1906. He was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Easton in 1908. He served in the First World War as major and lieutenant colonel, judge advocate, and was a member of the board of review of courts-martial in the United States Army.
Kirkpatrick was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922. He resumed the practice of law. He was appointed in 1927 as judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and became chief judge in 1933. He became senior judge when he retired in 1958. He died in Cumberstone, Maryland. Interment was in Christ Church Cemetery in Owings Mills, Maryland.
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| Preceded by Henry J. Steele |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 26th congressional district 1921 - 1923 |
Succeeded by Thomas W. Phillips, Jr. |
Categories: Pennsylvania United States Representative stubs | 1885 births | 1970 deaths | Members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania lawyers | United States District Court judges | American military personnel of World War I | University of Pennsylvania alumni
