Background
La Vega George Kinne was born on November 05, 1846 in Syracuse, New York, United States, the son of Aesop and Lydia (Beebe) Kinne. His father was a farmer of moderate circumstance.
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La Vega George Kinne was born on November 05, 1846 in Syracuse, New York, United States, the son of Aesop and Lydia (Beebe) Kinne. His father was a farmer of moderate circumstance.
La Vega attended high school and Ames Business School before he began the study of law in a Syracuse office. In 1865, he went to Mendota, Illinois, where he continued his study of law in private while working in an implement store. He was admitted to the bar the following spring, but, being discontented with a mere law-office preparation, he enrolled in the law school of the University of Michigan. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in the spring of 1868.
Kinne entered the practice of law about 1868 in Mendota. Later he moved to Toledo, Iowa, where in 1869 he became the junior member of the law firm of Crawford & Kinne. He continued in the practice of law until 1886 when he was elected judge of the seventeenth judicial district. Except for a few months while editor of the Des Moines Leader, he served as district judge until he was elected to the state supreme court in 1891. In 1897 he became chief justice. Because he had abandoned the Republican party in 1869 and become a staunch Democrat his election to the supreme court caused great apprehension in the state.
He had taken an active part in opposing a state prohibitory act which a Republican majority had adopted; and his political enemies, consequently, questioned his ability impartially to administer a law which he had so strongly opposed. His vigorous support of all laws not only silenced his political opponents but demonstrated to the state that political belief need play no part in judicial decision. His success in public life was indeed remarkable considering that as a Democrat he was representative of the minority group. He was twice candidate for governor (1881, 1883), and once for United States senator, and on each occasion ran well ahead of his party's ticket. A leader of his party, he was for many years a member, and several times chairman, of the Democratic state central committee and twice a delegate to the national convention (1876, 1884).
Kinne was the recipient of many offices of a non-political nature. He was a law lecturer at the State University of Iowa from 1888 to 1898, served for a time as law lecturer at the Iowa College of Law, Des Moines, and wrote Iowa Pleading, Practice and Forms in Actions and Special Proceedings at Law and Equity (1888). He was president of the Iowa Bar Association in 1896 and appointed as representative from Iowa on the commission for uniform state laws. He served as an officer of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and was the Iowa representative of the International Prison Association. In 1898 Iowa reorganized the administration of its penal and charitable institutions by the creation of the board of control of state institutions, consisting of three members appointed by the governor. Kinne was named as the Democratic member of the board, serving until his death.
As senior member he gave the greatest measure of service to his state. His sympathetic insight into human relations coupled with courageous executive abilities made him the creator of policies rather than administrator of details.
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Kinne was a member of the Democratic party. He was a strong opponent of a state prohibitory act.
On September 23, 1869, Kinne married Mary E. Abrams, of Peru, Illinois.
