William C. Joyner
William C. Joyner | |
|---|---|
Pima County district | |
| In office January 1927 – December 1928 | |
| Preceded by | Claude Smith |
| Succeeded by | Merton Martensen |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Politician |
William C. Joyner was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the
Pima County.[1] He also served as the state game warden, and was responsible for the construction of the Hunt Bass Hatchery House
.
Biography
Joyner was born in 1880 in
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. He also served two terms as a trustee on the University of Arizona Board of Regents and served as the Arizona state chairman for the Democrats.[2] In 1929, he moved from Tucson to Phoenix and entered the real estate business.[3] He was a veteran of the Spanish–American War, having fought in Cuba.[2]
In 1926 he ran for and won one of the two seats from
Pima County, he did not perform well in the rest of the state, and finished a distant third, with 9100 votes, behind W. H. Linville (13,270 votes) and J. C. Callaghan (17,769 votes), the eventual winner.[5][6] He served as the state's game warden, and was responsible for the construction of the Hunt Bass Hatchery House.[2]
In 1936 he attempted to run for the State Senate again, this time from
Maricopa County, but finished a distant 5th out of 8 Democrat candidates in the primary.[7][8] In 1940 he was supervisor in Maricopa and Yuma Counties for the decennial United States census.[9] In 1940, after the census, he moved to Waynesville, Missouri. He died on July 17, 1943, in a hospital in Waynesville.[2]
References
- ^ "Session laws, State of Arizona, 1925, Seventh Legislature, Regular Session". State of Arizona. p. vii. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
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