Will Kirk Kaynor

Infobox_Congressman
name=William Kirk Kaynor


state=Massachusetts
district=2nd
term=March 4, 1929 – December 20, 1929
preceded=Henry L. Bowles
succeeded=William J. Granfield
date of birth=birth date|1884|11|29|mf=y
place of birth=Sanborn, Iowa
date of death=death date and age|1929|12|20|1884|11|29|mf=y
place of death=Washington, D.C.
spouse= Alice Chapin Reed
profession=
religion=
party=Republican|

William Kirk Kaynor (November 29, 1884 – December 20, 1929) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Sanborn, Iowa, Kaynor attended the common schools of Spencer and Clear Lake. In his early youth, he was employed as a drug clerk in Clear Lake. He later moved to Gann Valley, South Dakota and herded cattle. He was graduated from Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Connecticut in 1908, and from Yale University in 1912. He moved to 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 1920-1924, and was the postmaster of Springfield from 1923-1928.

He was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first Congress and served from March 4, 1929, until his death in an airplane accident near Washington, D.C., on December 20, 1929. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts.

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state=Massachusetts
district=2
district_ord=2nd
before=Henry L. Bowles
after= William J. Granfield
years=March 4, 1929 - December 20, 1929