Obituary of William Kirby, Miller Co, AR

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Surname: KIRBY

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 was graduated in
1885; was admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Texarkana,
Ark.; member of the State house of representatives in 1893 and 1897; served
in the 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 in 1910 and served until November 15, 1916, when he resigned,
having been elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of James P. Clarke and served from November 8,
1916, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920 and
again in 1932; resumed the practice of his profession; again elected an
associate justice of the supreme court of Arkansas in 1926 and served until
his death in Little Rock, Ark., July 26, 1934; interment in State Line
Cemetery, Texarkana, Ark.