Thomas Kirkpatrick was an American politician from New York.

Life

He lived in

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, and was an alderman, elected in the Tenth Ward in 1843, and Overseer of the Poor. In

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, he was elected, on the Whig ticket, Inspector of State Prisons, and was in office from 1854 to 1856. He was

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of Auburn State Prison from January 1860 to January 1864. In

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, he was again elected State Prison Inspector, this time on the Republican ticket. He was in office from 1872 to 1874, but was defeated for re-election in 1874.

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