| LC control no. | no 98089115 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kirby, William F. (William Fosgate), 1867-1934 |
| Birth date | 1867-11-16 |
| Death date | 1934-07-26 |
| Place of birth | Texarkana (Ark.) |
| Place of death | Little Rock (Ark.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Judges Legislators |
| Found in | Digest of the statutes of Arkansas, 1904: t.p. (William F. Kirby) OCLC, June 3, 1998 (hdg.: Kirby, William Fosgate, 1867-1934; usage: William F. Kirby) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed September 28, 2023: (Kirby, 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.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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