{{Short description|Canadian politician (1839–1919)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Joseph Robbins Kinney.png | image_size = 150px | name = Joseph Robbins Kinney | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1839|04|15}} | birth_place = Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia | death_date = {{death date and age|1919|11|7|1847|04|28}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California | office = MLA for Yarmouth County | term_start = 1878 | term_end = 1882 | predecessor = John Lovitt | successor = Thomas Corning | office1 = MP for Yarmouth | term_start1 = 1882 | term_end1 = 1887 | predecessor1 = Frank Killam | successor1 = John Lovitt | party = Liberal | occupation = Merchant | spouse = Ada Ritchie<br />Mary Dakin | children = }}
'''Joseph Robbins Kinney''' (April 15, 1839 – November 7, 1919) was a merchant, notary public and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented the Yarmouth district in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1887 as a Liberal member.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9325|nolist=yes}}</ref>
The son of William Kinney (1809–1890) and Orpah Robbins,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}</ref> he was born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.<ref>[http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hayes-drake&id=I17988]''Roots ancestry: Joseph R. Kinney'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102158/http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hayes-drake&id=I17988 |date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> In 1860, he married Ada E. Ritchie. Kinney was consular agent for the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1881 |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32955 |access-date=2023-10-25 |website=www.canadiana.ca}} </ref> He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1878 to 1882. He ran unsuccessfully for reelection to the House of Commons in 1887 and 1891.<ref name="parl"/> Kinney was married twice: to Ada E. Ritchie in 1860 and in 1881 to Mary B. Dakin. Kinney served as Inspector of Fisheries for Nova Scotia for the division West of Halifax from 1890 to 1895.<ref name="johnson"/> His brother, also named William Kinney (1832–1915), traveled to the Hawaiian Islands where he owned a sugar plantation. Nephew William Ansel Kinney became a lawyer, and nephew Ray Kinney (1900–1972) a popular musician.<ref>{{cite web |title= Nick Hayes & Sue Drake - root and branch |work= Rootsweb |url= http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hayes-drake&id=I17983 |accessdate= August 14, 2010 }}</ref>
== Electoral record == {{1882 Canadian federal election/Yarmouth}} {{1887 Canadian federal election/Yarmouth}} {{1891 Canadian federal election/Yarmouth}}
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