Andrew Kirkpatrick (lawyer)
{{Short description|American judge}}
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| image = Samuel Lovett Waldo - Andrew Kirkpatrick, Class of 1775 (1756-1831) - PP133 - Princeton University Art Museum.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1756|02|17}}
| birth_place = Mine Brook, New Jersey
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1831|01|07|1756|02|17}}
| death_place = New Brunswick, New Jersey
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| occupation = Jurist, politician
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Jane Bayard|1792}}
| children = 4, including Littleton Kirkpatrick
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| education = College of New Jersey
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| office1 = Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
| term_start1 = 1798
| term_end1 = 1825
| office2 = Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
| term_start2 = 1797
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Andrew Kirkpatrick (1756–1831) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist from New Jersey.
Biography
Andrew Kirkpatrick was born in Mine Brook, New Jersey on February 17, 1756.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gawYAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA241 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XII |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=241–242 |year=1904 |access-date=2020-08-14 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1775.
He served one term as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1797 to 1798. He was appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1798. In 1799, Kirkpatrick was governor Richard Howell's sole opponent in the state assembly for reelection; he was defeated 33 to 15.{{cite web |date=11 January 2012 |title=New Jersey 1799 Governor |url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/h128ng12v |access-date=30 June 2024 |publisher=elections.lib.tufts.edu}} In 1804, he became the chief justice of that Court, and remained so until 1825.
For many years Kirkpatrick was a trustee of the College of New Jersey, and trustee of Queen's College (now Rutgers) from 1792 to 1809. He also served as a vice-president of the American Bible Society. He died on January 7, 1831, at New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Marriage and family
Kirpatrick married Jane Bayard in 1792, and they had four children. Their son Littleton Kirkpatrick also became an attorney and politician, serving in Congress and as mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
His namesake grandson, Andrew Kirkpatrick became an attorney and a United States District Court judge.Frank John Urquhart, A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey (1913), p. 380.
Sources
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- [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kirkpatrick.html The Political Graveyard]
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Category:Politicians from New Brunswick, New Jersey
Category:Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
Category:Chief justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
Category:19th-century New Jersey state court judges
Category:19th-century New Jersey politicians
Category:18th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature
Category:Candidates in the 1799 United States elections
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