Littleton Kirkpatrick

Littleton Kirkpatrick (October 19, 1797 – August 15, 1859) was an American Whig Party politician, who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1855. He was the son of Andrew Kirkpatrick and the former Jane Bayard, and grandson of John Bubenheim Bayard.

Littleton Kirkpatrick
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845
Preceded byJohn Bancker Aycrigg
William Halstead
John Patterson Bryan Maxwell
Joseph Fitz Randolph
Charles C. Stratton
Thomas J. Yorke (Elected statewide on a Whig Party general ticket)
Succeeded byJoseph E. Edsall
Personal details
BornOctober 19, 1797
New Brunswick, New Jersey
DiedAugust 15, 1859(1859-08-15) (aged 61)
Saratoga Springs, New York
Political partyDemocratic
ProfessionPolitician

Biography

Kirkpatrick was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey on October 19, 1797. He graduated from Princeton College in 1815. He studied law in Washington, D.C., was admitted to the bar in 1821, and returned to New Brunswick to begin his practice. He was master in court chancery in 1824, and surrogate of Middlesex County from 1831 to 1836.

He was Mayor of New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1841 to 1842. His grandfather John Bubenheim Bayard had been elected mayor of the city in 1790.

Kirkpatrick served as a trustee of Rutgers College from 1841 to 1859. He was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress, serving in office one term from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business.

He died in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 15, 1859. He was interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery in New Brunswick. He was reinterred in Van Liew Cemetery, North Brunswick, New Jersey in 1921.

Legacy

His wife, Sophia, remained in the city of New Brunswick after Littleton's death. When she died on March 6, 1871 at the age of 68, she named Rutgers College as her estate's residuary legatee.[1] Rutgers used the proceeds of this bequest to build Kirkpatrick Chapel in 1873. Today, this chapel is located on the historic Queen's Campus section of Rutgers's College Avenue Campus.

References
  1. Addresses at the inauguration of Austin Scott, Ph.D. as President of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J. Wednesday February 4th, 1891. (New Brunswick, Rutgers College, 1891), 44.
  • United States Congress. "Littleton Kirkpatrick (id: K000236)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Littleton Kirkpatrick at The Political Graveyard
  • Littleton Kirkpatrick at Find a Grave
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
James Henderson Imlay		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 4th congressional district
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845		 Succeeded by
Joseph E. Edsall
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