William Huntington Kirkpatrick

William Huntington Kirkpatrick (October 2, 1885 – November 28, 1970) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Education and career Born the son of William Sebring Kirkpatrick in Easton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Kirkpatrick attended the public schools, then received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Lafayette College in 1905 and attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice of law in Easton starting in 1908. He served in World War I as major and lieutenant colonel, judge advocate, and was a member of the board of review of courts-martial in the United States Army. an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. issuing early but influential decisions in Insurance Shares Corp. v. Northern Fiscal Corp., which described circumstances in which a corporation's controlling shareholder has a fiduciary duty not to sell the control block to a looter, and Kardon v. National Gypsum Co., first recognizing an implied private cause of action for Rule 10b-5 violations.

Other service Kirkpatrick was a trustee to Lafayette College from 1933 to 1961.