William F. Kirby

William F. Kirby

William Fosgate Kirby (born November 16, 1867 in Texarkana , Arkansas , †  July 26, 1934 in Little Rock , Arkansas) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Arkansas in the US Senate .

William Kirby attended public schools before he began studying law at the School of Law at Cumberland University . He graduated there in 1885, after which he was admitted to the bar that same year and began practicing in his hometown of Texarkana.

Kirby's political career began in 1893 when he moved to the Arkansas House of Representatives , where he served another term in 1897. From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1904 he wrote a legal text book called Kirby's Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas . After moving to the state capital, Little Rock, he served as Attorney General of Arkansas from 1907 to 1909 ; from 1910 to 1916 he was then an associate judge at the State Supreme Court.

He resigned after being elected to succeed the late US Senator James Paul Clarke and entered Congress on November 8, 1916 . In the Senate, Kirby chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture and was a member of the Patent Committee. In 1920 he was not re-run as a candidate by the Democrats, so he resigned from the Senate on March 3, 1921; In 1932 he applied again unsuccessfully for the nomination of his party. Kirby resumed his legal practice and was a member of the Arkansas Supreme Court again from 1926 , where he remained until his death in 1934.

Web links

• William F. Kirby in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William F. Kirby in the database of Find a Grave (English)