Biography
Joyner was born in 1880 in Newburg,Missouri. After graduating high school in Missouri,he received his bachelor's degree from the Missouri School of Mines. [2] Joyner was a trainman by occupation,and was employed in that capacity when he moved to Tucson,Arizona from Missouri in 1920,and was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He also served two terms as a trustee on the University of Arizona Board of Regents and served as the Arizona state chairman for the Democrats. [2] In 1929,he moved from Tucson to Phoenix and entered the real estate business. [3] He was a veteran of the Spanish–American War,having fought in Cuba. [2]
In 1926,he ran for and won one of the two seats from Pima County to the Arizona State Senate. [2] In 1928,he decided not to run for re-election to the State Senate,instead attempting to gain the Democrat nomination for Arizona Secretary of State. [4] While he won Pima County,he did not perform well in the rest of the state,and finished a distant third,with 9,100 votes,behind W. H. Linville (13,270 votes) and John Callaghan (17,769 votes),the eventual winner. [5] [6] He served as the state's game warden,and was responsible for the construction of the Hunt Bass Hatchery House. [2]
In 1936,he attempted to run for the State Senate again,this time from Maricopa County,but finished a distant 5th out of 8 Democrat candidates in the primary. [7] [8] In 1940,he was supervisor in Maricopa and Yuma Counties for the United States census. [9] In 1940,after the census,he moved to Waynesville,Missouri. He died on July 17,1943,in a hospital in Waynesville. [2]
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