Biography

10/24/1874 - 11/19/1942

WYNNE, Patrick H., a Representative from Luzerne County; born in Inkerman, Luzerne County, Pa., October 24, 1874; graduated, Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, 1898; coal miner; bookkeeper, iron foundry, Scranton; elected, justice of the peace, Jenkins Township (1905, 1910); unsuccessful campaign,  Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1912); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1914; reelected to serve 2 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1920); director, Pittman-Jenkins poor district; died, November 19, 1942 in Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.