Background
Haynes was born in 1853 in Fairmont Springs, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community.
Haynes was born in 1853 in Fairmont Springs, Pennsylvania, a coal mining community.
His Direct Democracy League was responsible for the state amendment which brought the reform to the local level and recall of the first public official in state history. During his youth the family removed to Philadelphia where he would eventually go on to earn his medical doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1887, the family removed to Los Angeles where he became one of the city"s busiest physicians.
Direct Democracy League
In 1904, the league successfully recalled "s first public official
Later years
Haynes served on the University of Board of Regents and nationally advocated for labor protection laws of coal miners and other workers. He was also Southern "s leading advocate for the national Native American population.
Haynes died in 1937, leaving behind a political legacy still present today through the Haynes Foundation, a social research institution, and the city"s oldest private foundation.
In 1897 he helped organize a chapter of the Union Reform League, a socialist movement.
Haynes sat on the freeholders board in 1924 which created the charter that operates the city today, and he would also serve during this time on the civil service commission and as a member of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners.