W. B. Kinne | |
Office: | 17th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho |
Term: | January 7, 1929 – September 30, 1929 |
Governor: | H. C. Baldridge |
Predecessor: | O. E. Hailey |
Successor: | O. E. Hailey |
Birth Name: | William Baker Kinne |
Birth Date: | 22 March 1874 |
Birth Place: | Point Wolf, New Brunswick, Canada |
Death Place: | Orofino, Idaho |
Spouse: | Isabelle M. Kinne |
Party: | Republican |
William Baker Kinne (March 22, 1874 – October 1, 1929) was a Republican politician from Idaho. He served as the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Idaho for eight months in 1929 during the administration of Governor H. C. Baldridge. He was a native of New Brunswick. He was kidnapped in June 1929 along with another occupant, however he managed to escape and inform the public about the incident, creating a manhunt for the suspects involved, who were eventually arrested, tried and imprisoned.[1] Kinne died in office in September 1929 at Orofino, Idaho of peritonitis resulting from appendicitis[2] [3] and was succeeded by O. E. Hailey.