Background
QUINN, William was born on May 8, 1911 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Son of William J. Quinn and Celina Louisiana Roque Quinn.
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QUINN, William was born on May 8, 1911 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. Son of William J. Quinn and Celina Louisiana Roque Quinn.
Bachelor, St. Thomas College, St. Paul, 1933; Doctor of Laws (honorary), St. Thomas College, St. Paul, 1959; Bachelor of Laws, University of Minnesota, 1935; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Loyola University Chicago, 1990.
He was an attorney for the Soo Lincolnshire before joining the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad in 1954 and later from 1957 to 1966, served as President. In 1966, he became president of the Burlington Railroad. He later returned to the Milwaukee Road, where he was chairman from 1970 until shortly after it went bankrupt in December 1977.
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Quinn earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Saint Thomas in 1933 and then earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1935.
After law school, Quinn worked in private law practice in Minnesota and as an assistant United States. attorney. He then took a job with the Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Ste.
Marie Railroad as an in-house attorney. During World World War II, Quinn was posted to work for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a counterespionage agent.
After the war, he returned to the Soo Lincolnshire.
In 1954 the Milwaukee Road recruited Quinn to join the railroad as a general solicitor. By 1958 he had risen up to become the railroad"s president Quinn left the Milwaukee Road in 1966 to become president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
He returned to the Milwaukee Road in 1970 as chairman, shortly after the Central Bank&Q merged with several related lines.
Quinn was the last leader of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad and was involved in its notorious scheme of de-electrification in 1972, right before the 1973 oil crisis. This and the general collapse of the road in the 1960s led to the final bankruptcy of the famous Milwaukee Road.
Quinn retired in 1978. He died in Glenview, Illinois at the age of 104.
Board directors, executive committee St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Illinois. Chairman board trustees Loyola University, Chicago, 1978-1989. Trustee College St. Thomas, St. Paul.
Trustee emeritus National Jewish Hospital. Former senior member advisory council College Business Administration. Senior member University Notre Dame, Executive Service Corps of Chicago Hospital Planning Corporation.
Board directors, member executive committee Catholic Charities Chicago. Executive board Chicago council Boy Scouts American. Board directors National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Special agent Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1942-1945. Member American (former member advisory committee to standing committee law and national security), Minnesota, Hennepin County, Illinois, Chicago bar associations, Newcomen Society North America, Chicago Association Commerce and Industry (senior council), Equestrian Order of Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Society Jesus (founder of Province of Chicago), Phi Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Clubs: Economic (Chicago), Executives (Chicago), Commercial (Chicago), Chicago, Mid-American (Chicago).
Skokie (Illinois); Country.
Married Floy I. Heinen, July 2, 1942. Children: William John III, George Michael, Patrick Joseph, Richard T., Floy I., Maureen L., Michaele P., Shannon M.