Andrew Jackson Kirk

Andrew Jackson Kirk (born March 19, 1866 in Warfield , Martin County , Kentucky , †  May 25, 1933 in Paintsville , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1926 and 1927 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Kirk attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at Valparaiso University in Indiana and his admission to the bar in 1890, he began to work in this profession in Inez . Between 1894 and 1898, Kirk served as the district attorney in Martin County. He was then from 1898 to 1904 district attorney in Kentucky’s 24th Judicial District. He then became a judge in the same district. He held this office until 1916; then he worked again as a private lawyer.

Politically, Kirk was a member of the Republican Party . After the resignation of MP John W. Langley , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the by-election for the tenth seat of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on February 13, 1926. Since he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party in the regular elections of 1926, he was only able to end the current term of his predecessor in Congress until March 3, 1927 .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Kirk practiced as a lawyer again. In 1933 he became his party's candidate for the office of district judge. He died in Paintsville on May 25th of this year before the decision on this post was made. Andrew Kirk found his final resting place in Inez's cemetery.

Web links

• Andrew Jackson Kirk in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Jackson Kirk in the database of Find a Grave (English)