Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau mai i Austin, Texas, he tohu a Kirk no Austin's John H. Reagan High School, Austin College, me te Whare Wananga o Texas School of Law. Mai i te 1994 ki te 1995, i mahi a Kirk hei Hekeretari o te Kawanatanga o Texas, tae noa ki tana pooti hei Koromatua o Dallas, i mahi ai ia mai i te 1995 ki te 2002 a ko ia te tangata tuatahi o Awherika-Amerika ki te pupuri i tetahi o aua tuunga. I whakataetae ia mo te United States Senate i te tau 2002, engari i hinga ia e te hoa riri Republican a John Cornyn. I muri i tana hingatanga, i mahi a Kirk hei hoa i te umanga ture a Vinson & Elkins i Houston, i mahi ano hoki hei kaitautoko mo te Energy Future Holdings me Merrill Lynch. I tohua a Kirk e te Perehitini Barack Obama hei Kaiwhakahaere Tauhokohoko a US a i te Poutu-te-rangi 18, 2009, ka whakapumautia e te US Senate i roto i te pooti whakaū 92 <unk> 5. I te Hanuere 22, 2013, i kii a Kirk ka wehe atu ia hei U.S. Trade Rep.  Pātai: Ko wai i patu i a Kirk i tana whakataetae mo te Senate?
Ko John Cornyn