Huston Quin

Huston Quin

Infobox Person
name = Huston Quin


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residence = Anchorage, Kentucky
birth_date = birth date|1876|08|4
birth_place = Anchorage, Kentucky, U.S.A.
death_date = death date and age|1938|08|28|1876|14|4
death_place = Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
death_cause = Heart disease
occupation = Attorney, politician, executive
title = Mayor of Louisville
term = 1921-1925
predecessor = George Weissinger Smith
successor = Arthur A. Will
party = Republican Party

Huston Quin was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1917 to 1921. He was educated in public schools in Louisville and received a law degree from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1900. He practiced law with the Louisville firm "Helm & Bruce" until 1908, when he became a city attorney. He left the position in 1912 to reenter private practice, but was appointed to the city attorney position in 1917. In 1918 he was elected to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

He served as a judge until 1921, when he was elected Mayor of Louisville on the Republican ticket. As mayor he tried unsuccessfully to arrange funding for what became the Clark Memorial Bridge, and is credited as the mayor to start to push for the eventual Louisville to Jeffersonville, Indiana bridge.

He was the first mayor to appoint black officers to the Louisville Police Department and fire department, and oversaw the arrival of the first traffic lights to Downtown Louisville. He helped the transition of the University of Louisville from various buildings around town to the Belknap Campus.

After his term as mayor he served as president of Title Insurance & Trust Company until his death in 1938 of heart disease. He was buried in Resthaven Memorial Park.

References

*cite encyclopedia|title=Quin, Huston|encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Louisville|year=2001
*cite book|title=Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County|last=Yater|first=George H.|year=1987|publisher=Filson Club, Incorporated|location=Louisville, KY|edition=2nd edition|id = ISBN 0-9601072-3-1


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