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Biographies
D. JOSEPH
COYNE
D. Joseph Coyne was born in Chicago, Ill., July 11, 1882. He was educated in the public and high schools of Chicago and at Athenaeum College and Lewis Institute of that city. He graduated with the degree of LL. B. from Lake Forest University in 1905. He was admitted to practice in Illinois in September 1905, and in California December 1905. He was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States in June 1912. Mr. Coyne married Johanna Slaney in Los Angeles, September 1910. There are three sons and one daughter, Bernard P., Blanche J., Edmund and Robert Slaney Coyne.
Mr. Coyne was elected to the Board of Freeholders of Los Angeles in 1915, serving as Chairman of the Law Committee. He was appointed by Mayor Woodman of Los Angeles, a member of the Social Service Commission in 1918 and re-appointed by Mayor Snyder in 1920, serving as President thereof. He was named by Gov. Stephens of California, in August 1921, as Executive Director of the California Water Storage Districts, in which position he is still acting; confirmed by Gov. Richardson as a member of State Board of Irrigation, of which board he is now a member.
In 1915 as Chairman of the Citizens Committee he conducted two public campaigns in Los Angeles, which resulted in the people establishing in the Los Angeles Fire Department the two platoon system and better pension laws for members of the Fire and Police departments in 1916. As Chairman of the Law Committee of the Board of Freeholders in 1915 he introduced as a part of that proposed charter the first suggestion of a Municipal court for Los Angeles. As President of the Social Service Commission in 1918 he first launched the campaign for the establishment of the Community Chest for the City of Los Angeles, and participated in its final organization.
As an attorney, Mr. Coyne is engaged in general civil, probate, and corporation practice and is engaged in development work in Southern California, in a business way as Secretary of the Mascot Oil Company, the Cajon Lime Products Company, and the Arlington Mining Corporation, as well as Attorney for many corporations with extensive operations in California. He is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles County Bar Association, State Bar of California, Los Angeles Athletic Association, Order of Elks, and for the years 1921, 1922, and 1923, served as State Deputy of the Jurisdiction of California for the Knights of Columbus. He is also a member of the Newman Club, Riviera County Club and Club Casa Del Mar.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: "American Blue Book California Lawyers"
by H. James Boswell, Pages
120-121, Produced by H.
James Boswell, 1928.
© 2008 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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