Andrew Kirkpatrick (lawyer)
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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.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>Template:Cite book</ref> He graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1775.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
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.<ref name="GBN">Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>
Marriage and family
Kirpatrick married Jane Bayard in 1792, and they had four children.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/> 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.<ref>Frank John Urquhart, A History of the City of Newark, New Jersey (1913), p. 380.</ref>
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- 1756 births
- 1831 deaths
- Politicians from New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Members of the New Jersey General Assembly
- Chief justices of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
- 19th-century New Jersey state court judges
- 19th-century New Jersey politicians
- 18th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature
- Candidates in the 1799 United States elections