{{Short description|American politician}} {{Cleanup Congress bio}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Kirk Kaynor | image = William K. Kaynor (Massachusetts Congressman).jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] | term = March 4, 1929 – December 20, 1929 | preceded = [[Henry L. Bowles]] | succeeded = [[William J. Granfield]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1884|11|29|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Sanborn, Iowa]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1929|12|20|1884|11|29|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]] | spouse = Alice Chapin Reed | profession = | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] }}
'''William Kirk Kaynor''' (November 29, 1884 – December 20, 1929) was a [[United States House of Representatives|United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
Born in [[Sanborn, Iowa|Sanborn]], [[Iowa]], Kaynor attended the common schools of [[Spencer, Iowa|Spencer]] and [[Clear Lake, Iowa|Clear Lake]]. In his early youth, he was employed as a drug store clerk in Clear Lake. He later moved to [[Gann Valley, South Dakota|Gann Valley]], [[South Dakota]], and herded [[cattle]]. He was graduated from [[Hotchkiss School]], [[Lakeville, Connecticut|Lakeville]], [[Connecticut]], in 1908, and from [[Yale University]] in 1912. He moved to [[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]], [[Massachusetts]], and engaged in the real estate and insurance business. During the First World War, he attended the officers' training school at Camp Lee, Virginia, from July to November 1918. He was a member of the common council of Springfield from 1920 to 1924, and was the postmaster of Springfield from 1923 to 1928.
He was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Seventy-first Congress and served from March 4, 1929, until his death in a [[United States Army Air Corps]] airplane accident at [[Bolling Field]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], on December 20, 1929. It was his first time in an airplane.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://planecrashinfo.com/famous1920s.htm |title=planecrashinfo.com Famous People Who Died in Aviation Accidents: 1920s |access-date=2015-12-22 |archive-date=2015-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151211033839/http://planecrashinfo.com/famous1920s.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts.
==See also== *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{CongBio|K000024}} *{{Find a Grave|7481730}}
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