{{Short description|Arizona politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Alfred Kinney | image = | caption = | office = | term_start = | term_end = | preceded = | succeeded = | state_senate1 = Arizona | district1 = Gila County | term_start1 = March 1912 | term_end1 = January 1919 | predecessor1 = First Senator from Gila County | successor1 = J. Warren Young | state_senate2 = Arizona | district2 = Gila County | term_start2 = January 1923 | term_end2 = January 1933 | predecessor2 = F. A. Woodward | successor2 = John P. Dougherty | state_senate3 = | district3 = | term_start3 = | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | state_senate4 = | district4 = | term_start4 = | term_end4 = | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | state_senate5 = | district5 = | term_start5 = | term_end5 = | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|53|1912|01|28|noage=1}}<ref>{{cite news|title=Men Who Will Compose the Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692635/ |newspaper=Tombstone Epitaph |date=January 28, 1912 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> | birth_place = Ohio, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date|1934|01|23}} | death_place = Globe, Arizona | party = Democrat | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | website = | occupation = Sawyer, ice distributor }}
'''Alfred Kinney''' was a politician from Arizona. He was one of the first two state senators from Gila County, serving in the first three state legislatures, and the 6th through 10th legislatures, a total of eight legislatures overall.
==Life== Kinney was born in Ohio, leaving home at the age of 14 and traveling to Colorado, where he remained for several years, before heading to New Mexico. He stayed there for two years, then made his way to Arizona, where he eventually ended up in Globe, Arizona, where he arrived in 1881.<ref name=SB060517>{{cite news|title=Globe Ice & Cold Storage Company |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692695/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=May 17, 1906 |page=20 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref name=BDR121208>{{cite news|title=Alfred Kinney Bisbee Visitor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692721/ |newspaper=Bisbee Daily Review |date=December 8, 1912 |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> After his arrival in Globe, he initially worked at a sawmill, where he lost an arm.<ref name=ADS340124>{{cite news|title=First Globe Mayor, 8-Time Solon, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692761/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=January 24, 1934 |page=5 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He was married to Clara Kinney.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mrs. Kinney Is Given Judgement |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692854/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=June 10, 1908 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Sometime in late 1888, or early January 1889, Kinney purchased the Globe Soda Water Works.<ref>{{cite news|title=Untitled |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102692876/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=January 5, 1989 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In 1891 Kinney purchased a commercial ice making machine, after which the company was renamed The Globe Ice and Soda Works. In addition, he and his wife operated a rooming house in Globe, called "Kinney House".<ref>{{cite news|title=Untitled |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102693105/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=May 9, 1891 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Old Dominion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102693176/ |newspaper=Tucson Citizen |date=June 11, 1892 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In 1891, Globe experienced a devastating flood, when Pinal Creek, swollen by two days of torrential rain, overran its banks, destroying many houses and businesses. Kinney's adobe house was one of those lost in the flooding.<ref>{{cite news|title=A Disastrous Freshet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/95849723/pinal-creek-flood-february-1891/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=February 21, 1891 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
By 1900 Kinney had renamed his company the Globe Ice Works.<ref>{{cite news|title=A New Ice Machine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752295/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=June 14, 1900 |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In August 1901, Kinney and several partners transferred the assets of the Globe Ice Works into a new public corporation, The Globe Ice and Cold Storage Company,<ref>{{cite news|title=Articles of Incorporation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752319/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=September 5, 1901 |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> with Kinney serving as the corporation's president.<ref>{{cite news|title=Resolution To Increase |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752347/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=April 19, 1906 |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> A month prior, Kinney was also one of the founding officers of the Pinal Paraffine Oil Company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Articles of Incorporation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752907/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=October 3, 1901 |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In 1905 he was one of the founding members, serving on the board of directors, of the Radium Mines Company, a mining corporation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Articles of Incorporation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752945/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=November 30, 1905 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He had numerous other mining interests, as did his wife, including the Bryan Group of mines, which was very profitable.<ref name=SB060517 /><ref>{{cite news|title=Made Second Payment |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102752985/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=January 5, 1907 |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He had numerous other mining interests, as did his wife, including the Bryan Group of mines, which was very profitable.<ref name=SB060517 /> In 1907 he was one of the founders of the Globe Consolidated Lighting, Water & Power Company.<ref>{{cite news|title=Articles of Incorporation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102753015/ |newspaper=Daily Arizona Silver Belt |date=June 13, 1907 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
While wealthy in his own right, his wife was thought to be the wealthiest woman in Arizona, and one of the top two wealthiest people in the entire state.<ref>{{cite news|title=Articles of Incorporation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102817456/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=June 13, 1907 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> The two sold their rights on 25 mining claims in the Sleeping Beauty Mountains to the Porphyry Reserve Copper Company in 1930 for $250,000. At the time it was one of the largest deals in mining in Gila County.<ref>{{cite news|title=Porphyry Firm to Take Over Gila Property |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102817461/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=March 23, 1930 |page=39 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In January 1931, Clara Kinney became seriously ill, Senator Kinney travelled back and forth between the hospital in Globe where she was being seen to, and his senatorial duties in Phoenix. She died after several weeks in the hospital on February 6, 1931.<ref>{{cite news|title=Senator's Wife Better |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102817469/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=January 28, 1931 |page=16 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Death Comes For Wife of Senator |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102817483/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=February 7, 1931 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
Kinney died suddenly on January 23, 1934, from what was reported as a heart stroke.<ref name=ADS340124 />
==Political career== In 1886, Kinney was the Democratic nominee for the supervisor of Gila County.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Democratic Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820702/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=September 4, 1886 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> While the other Democrat in the race, W. F. Connors, lost, Kinney was elected to supervisor.<ref>{{cite news|title=Arizona County Officials |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/162867101/?terms=%22Alfred%20Kinney%22&match=1 |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=December 12, 1886 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In July 1888, citing personal business, Kinney resigned from the Board of Supervisors.<ref>{{cite news|title=Board of Supervisors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820747/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=August 4, 1888 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In 1898 Kinney was one of two delegates from Gila County to the Arizona territorial Democratic convention.<ref>{{cite news|title=Untitled |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820767/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=September 15, 1898 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 15, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In 1908 Kinney was the Democratic candidate for mayor of Globe, which he won handily, becoming the first mayor of Globe.<ref name=ADS340124 /><ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats in Harmony |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820823/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=May 26, 1908 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Table of Yesterday's Vote |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820843/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=May 3, 1908 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Kinney resigned as president of the Pinal Mountain Water Company, due to a conflict of interest with his new mayoral duties.<ref>{{cite news|title=New Directors For Pinal Mountain Water Co. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820879/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=April 7, 1909 |page=7 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> After less than two years in office, Kinney resigned his mayoral seat, over a conflict with the city council regarding city employees' wages.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mayor Kinney Resigns; Higdon Will Quit |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820923/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=January 8, 1910 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> However, Kinney, agreed to rescind his resignation, as long as the council considered passing the ordnance he authored reducing certain city employees' salaries. The town council agreed, and Kinney did not resign.<ref>{{cite news|title=Interest Centers in Meeting of Council |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102820962/ |newspaper=Arizona Silver Belt |date=January 13, 1910 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In September 1910, Kinney was one of five Democratic nominees from Gila County to be the county's delegates to the State Constitutional Convention Arizona State Legislature.<ref>{{cite news|title=Names of Candidates in All Counties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889781/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 9, 1910 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Initially it was reported that all five of the Democrats in Gila County, which included future governor, George W. P. Hunt, won the election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Delegates To Constitutional Convention |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9246636/ |newspaper=St. Johns Herald and Apache News |date=September 22, 1910 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> However, there was a change after the final tally came in and one Republican, John Langdon, received more votes than three of the Democrats, and he knocked John H. McCormick out as a constitutional delegate.<ref>{{cite news|title=Republican Wins in Official Count |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889820/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 29, 1910 |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In December 1910 Kinney became one of the forty-one signers of the Arizona Constitution. There were 52 delegates, but 11—10 Republicans and one Democrat—refused to sign.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Constitution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889850/ |newspaper=The Border Vidette |date=December 17, 1910 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In 1911, he was one of the first two state senators from Gila County elected to the 1st State Legislature.<ref>{{cite news|title=Members of the First Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889887/ |newspaper=The Coconino Sun |date=December 22, 1911 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He wrote a bill, called the Kinney Bill, limiting those working in the mining industry to people who could speak English. This was in response to a large number of Slavonian workers who took their earnings and sent the vast bulk back home to Slavonia, removing those funds from the local economy. He had attempted to have this included in the Arizona Constitution, but had failed to do so. The bill also did not pass in the Senate, so Kinney decided to have it put forth as a public referendum.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Convention Favors Election of the Judiciary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889920/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=October 27, 1910 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Kinney Bill Before Senate For Passage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889943/ |newspaper=The Copper Era and Morenci Leader |date=April 12, 1912 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Will Initiate Kinney Measure |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102889955/ |newspaper=The Tucson Citizen |date=May 28, 1912 |page=5 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> However, while his petitions gained the requisite number of votes, he failed to get them in to the Secretary of State's office in time for them to be included on the November 1912 ballot.<ref name=BDR121208 />
Kinney was one of the few members of the 1st Legislature to run for re-election in 1914.<ref>{{cite news|title=Next Legislature Will Be Composed of New Officials |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890076/ |newspaper=Bisbee Daily Review |date=August 30, 1914 |page=5 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In a Democratic landslide, he won re-election in November.<ref>{{cite news|title=Membership in Senate and House |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890095/ |newspaper=Tucson Citizen |date=November 18, 1914 |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Navajo County Elects Only Republican To Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890115/ |newspaper=The Holbrook News |date=November 28, 1914 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Of the 54 legislators in both houses of the 1st Legislature, Kinney was one of only six to be re-elected.<ref>{{cite news|title=Veterans Chase and Cook To Call Solons To Order Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890154/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=January 11, 1915 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He was again re-elected in 1916.<ref>{{cite news|title=Who's Who in the Legislature of Arizona |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890167/ |newspaper=Tucson Citizen |date=November 18, 1916 |page=9 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
He did not run for re-election in 1918, and instead once again became mayor of Globe, when in 1922 he decided to once again run for the state senate.<ref>{{cite news|title=State Campaign Under Way |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/43895278/kinney-alfred-mayor-republic-29jul1922-o/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=July 29, 1922 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He was nominated at the Democratic convention,<ref>{{cite news|title=Candidates For Legislature In Both Parties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890687/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 28, 1922 |page=14 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> and in November, he was once again elected to state senate as a senator from Gila County in the 6th Arizona State Legislature.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gila County Democratic By Overwhelming Vote |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890701/ |newspaper=Tombstone Epitaph |date=November 12, 1922 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He served simultaneously as both state senator and mayor of Globe,<ref>{{cite news|title=Globe Citizens Pay Tribute to Memory of Walter P. Bland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890795/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=November 2, 1923 |page=11 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> but was defeated in his attempt at re-election for mayor, when he lost in the Democratic primary 490–425 to D. L. Meloy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Globe Conductor to Be Democrat's Mayoralty Nominee |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890804/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=April 26, 1924 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Shortly after his defeat in the mayoral Democratic primary, Kinney announced his intention to seek re-election to the state senate in the fall.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gila Representative to Seek Re-Election |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890833/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=May 31, 1924 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Kinney easily won the Democratic primary, getting the most votes of all 4 candidates: Kinney - 2,470; John R. Lyons - 2,438; John J. McCullough - 1,463; and George F. Senner - 1,794.<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats Nominate Miss Lucy Nash For Superintendent of Schools In Gila County By Four Vote Majority |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890868/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 12, 1924 |page=2 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> In November he was once again sent back to the state senate in the general election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats Given Overwhelming Majorities In Both Houses of Seventh Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102890917/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=November 25, 1924 |page=20 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
When queried by former Governor Hunt in June 1926 on whether or not he intended to once again run for re-election, Kinney replied, "I don't want to, but will go if they send me."<ref>{{cite news|title=Governor At Globe Forecasts Re-Entry In Fall Campaign |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894318/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=June 18, 1926 |page=1 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> He once again garnered the most votes in the Democratic primary, and was re-elected for another term in the state senate in November.<ref>{{cite news|title=First Expense Reports of Primary Candidates Are Received at State Capitol; Only Ten Days To File |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894339/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 14, 1926 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Complete List Of Officials By County Given: Gila County |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894372/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=November 8, 1926 |page=8 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Kinney announced that he would run again for the state senate in August 1928.<ref>{{cite news|title=List of Candidates in Gila County Totals 57 With Others To Qualify |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894400/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=August 12, 1928 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Despite a Democratic primary filled with upsets, Kinney was re-nominated to run in the general election, which he also won in November.<ref>{{cite news|title=Murphy Defeated For Legislature in Gila; Primary Upsets Many |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894430/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=September 13, 1928 |page=4 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Official Roster of Ninth Legislature Drawn |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7330428/official-roster-thomas/ |newspaper=The Arizona Republican |date=November 28, 1928 |page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Kinney again won the Democratic nomination for state senator from Gila County in 1930, and was part of a Democratic landslide in the general election in November.<ref>{{cite news|title=Democrats Win Both Houses in Arizona Overwhelmingly |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894501/ |newspaper=Tucson Citizen |date=November 6, 1930 | page=8 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref> Kinney chose not to run for re-election in 1932.<ref>{{cite news|title=Complexion of State Legislature Bound to Change With 216 Democrats, 38 Republicans Seeking Many Offices |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102894538/ |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=September 12, 1932 | page=3 |via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 16, 2022}} {{Open access}}</ref>
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