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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasWilliam Fosgate KIRBY
(1867-1934)
Senate Years of Service:
1916-1921Party: DemocratKIRBY, William Fosgate, a
Senator from Arkansas; born near Texarkana, Miller County, Ark.,
November 16, 1867; attended the common schools; studied law at
Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., and graduated in 1885;
admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Texarkana,
Ark.; member, State house of representatives 1893, 1897; member,
State senate 1899-1901; author of ’Kirby’s Digest of
the Statutes of Arkansas’ in 1904; moved to Little Rock in
1907; attorney general of Arkansas 1907-1909; elected associate
justice of the supreme court of Arkansas 1910-1916, when he
resigned, having been elected on November 7, 1916, as a Democrat to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
James P. Clarke; served from November 8, 1916, to March 3, 1921;
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920 and again in 1932;
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of
Agriculture (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on
Patents (Sixty-fifth Congress); resumed the practice of law; an
associate justice of the supreme court of Arkansas from 1926 until
his death in Little Rock, Ark., July 26, 1934; interment in State
Line Cemetery, Texarkana, Ark.
Bibliography
Niswonger, Richard L. “William F. Kirby, Arkansas’s
Maverick Senator.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 37
(Autumn 1978): 252-63.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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