William Joseph Hynes

Who was William Joseph Hynes?

William Joseph Hynes was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

He was born in County Clare, Ireland on March 31, 1843 and immigrated to the United States in 1854, settling in New York. Hynes attended the public schools of Massachusetts and learned the art of printing. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Little Rock, Ark. He was elected as a Liberal Republican to the Forty-third United States Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress. He moved to Chicago in 1876 and resumed the practice of his profession. He retired from the practice of law in 1910 and moved to Los Angeles, California, where he remained until his death, April 2, 1915. He was interred in Calvary vault.H.