William C. Joyner was an American politician from Arizona. He served a single term in the Arizona State Senate during the 8th Arizona State Legislature, holding one of the two seats from Pima County.[1] He also served as the state game warden, and was responsible for the construction of the Hunt Bass Hatchery House.
William C. Joyner | |
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 Joyner, ca. 1929 | |
| Member of the Arizona Senate from the 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 |
Biography
editJoyner was born in 1880 in Newburg, Missouri. After graduating high school in Missouri, he received his bachelor's degree from the Missouri School of Mines.[2] Joyner was a trainman by occupation, and was employed in that capacity when he moved to Tucson, Arizona from Missouri in 1920, and was a member of the 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 to the Arizona State Senate.[2] In 1928, he decided not to run for re-election to the State Senate, instead attempting to gain the Democrat nomination for Arizona Secretary of State.[4] While he won 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
edit- ^ "Session laws, State of Arizona, 1925, Seventh Legislature, Regular Session". State of Arizona. p. vii. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f "W. C. Joyner Is Taken By Death". Arizona Daily Star. July 18, 1943. p. 4. Retrieved September 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Joyner Quits Tucson". Arizona Daily Star. February 22, 1929. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Expresses Confidence". Arizona Daily Star. September 8, 1928. p. 12. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Hunt, Phillips Lead Parties". Arizona Daily Star. September 12, 1928. p. 3. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Murphy Leads Howe In State Tax Board Race". The Arizona Republican. September 13, 1928. p. 2. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "William C. Joyner to Seek Seat In Senate". Arizona Daily Star. May 29, 1936. p. 7. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "County Table". Arizona Republic. September 10, 1936. p. 3. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Glendale Given 4,869 Census". Arizona Republic. May 3, 1940. p. 1. Retrieved September 24, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.