Background
Kirkpatrick, William Sebring was born on April 21, 1844 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Newton and Susan (Sebring) Kirkpatrick.
United States representative lawyer politician
Kirkpatrick, William Sebring was born on April 21, 1844 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Newton and Susan (Sebring) Kirkpatrick.
Bachelor of Arts, Lafayette College, 1863, Master of Arts, 1872. (Doctor of Laws, Washington and Jefferson College, 1902). Studied law with Honorary H. Doctorate. Maxwell.
Admitted to bar, 1865.
He was the solicitor of Easton from 1866 to 1874. He worked as a teacher in the Easton public schools in 1868 and 1869. He presided temporarily over the Republican State convention in 1882.
He was a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention.
He was Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891. He served as lecturer on municipal law at Lafayette College.
Kirkpatrick was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1894. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1898.
He resumed the practice of law and died in Easton, in 1932. Interment in Easton Cemetery.
He was appointed president judge of the third judicial district in 1874, and served as a member of the faculty of Lafayette College from 1875 to 1877 and member of the board of trustees from 1890 to 1932.
Married Elizabeth H. Jones, March 20, 1873.