Snyder S. Kirkpatrick

Snyder S. Kirkpatrick (1896)

Snyder Solomon Kirkpatrick (born February 21, 1848 in Mulkey , Franklin County , Illinois , † April 5, 1909 in Fredonia , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Snyder Kirkpatrick attended public schools in his home country. In 1864 he served in an Illinois cavalry unit during the Civil War . He then worked in trade from 1865. After studying law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and being admitted to the bar in 1868, he began practicing his new profession in Cairo . In 1873 he moved his practice to Fredonia, Kansas. In 1880 he was a district attorney in Wilson County .

Kirkpatrick was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1889 and 1893 he was a member of the Kansas Senate . In 1892 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the congressional elections of 1894 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Kansas . There he took over from Thomas Jefferson Hudson on March 4, 1893 . But since he was not confirmed in 1896, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1897. In the following two congressional elections, he ran unsuccessfully for his return to the House of Representatives.

Between 1903 and 1905 Kirkpatrick was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . He died in Fredonia in 1909 and was buried there.

Web links

• Snyder S. Kirkpatrick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Snyder S. Kirkpatrick in the database of Find a Grave (English)