William Joseph Wynn (June 12, 1860 – January 4, 1935) was an American machinist and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from California for one term from 1903 to 1905.
Biography
Born to Irish parents in San Francisco, California, Wynn attended the city's public schools. He apprenticed as a machinist and then worked the trade in the city's principal manufacturing establishments. An ally of Republican political operative Abe Ruef, Wynn was chosen to be one of his representatives to the founding convention of the Union Labor Party in 1901, serving as secretary of the convention. He was then elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that November on the Union Labor ticket, serving from January 1902 to March 1903.
Congress Wynn was elected on a Democratic and Union Labor ticket to the 58th Congress, serving from 1903 to 1905. During his tenure he turned on Ruef, now political boss of the Union Labor Party, and subsequently lost the party's nomination in 1904. Though he still had the Democratic ballot line, he lost to Republican Everis A. Hayes.
Later career and death After leaving office, Wynn worked in the insurance business in San Francisco until his death on January 4, 1935. He is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.
Wynn was an active member of the Native Sons of the Golden West.
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