John Joseph McIntyre (December 17, 1904 – November 30, 1974) was a

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from

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Early years

McIntyre was born on a farm in

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, attended grade schools at

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, and graduated from the high school at

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, and from the law department of the

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in 1928.

Legal career

He was admitted to the

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in 1929 and commenced practice in

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. He moved to Douglas, Wyoming in 1931 and continued the

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. He served as county and prosecuting attorney of Converse County from 1933 to 1936 and was special attorney for the

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from 1936 to 1938. He was an associate attorney in the solicitor's office of the

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in Washington, 1938. He was a member of the

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with the rank of captain from 1935 to 1941.

Politics

McIntyre was elected as a member of the

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to the

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, serving from January 3, 1941 to January 3, 1943. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1942 to the

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. He was deputy attorney general of Wyoming in 1943 and 1944, and served as a Staff Sergeant in Headquarters Battery, Six Hundred and Sixtieth Field Artillery, from February 9, 1944, to August 22, 1945; he was decorated with the French Croix de Guerre. He was State

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for Wyoming in 1946, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1946 to the

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. He was Democratic nominee for

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in 1950, and was elected in 1960 as a justice of the

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for a four-year term; he was reelected in 1964 and served continuously until his death, November 30, 1974, in

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. Interment was in Memorial Gardens.

References

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