Viewing Thomas H. Quinn, Jr. (1898-1946).

Thomas H. Quinn, Jr. (1898-1946).

Thomas Quinn Jr., graduated from the St. Paul College of Law in 1919, almost but not quite age twenty-one. He had to wait six months before he was admitted to the bar on November 18, 1919, two days after his birthday. He was in a hurry. Public service and Democratic politics were fixtures in his family. In 1921 he was elected mayor of Faribault--the youngest mayor in the country--and re-elected in 1923. In 1926 he was elected Rice County Attorney, and was re-elected in 1930 and 1934. He was defeated in a bid for a fourth term in 1938, and lost an election for judge of the Fifth Judicial District to incumbent Axel B. Anderson in 1942.

On January 24, 1946, Thomas H. Quinn, Jr., died. He was forty-seven year old. The next day "Faribault Daily News" editorialized:

"Mr. Quinn was a man who took hold of things with vigor -- there was no halfway measure in his thinking. He was either all for something or all against it. This type of thinking always makes some enemies as well as friends. Mr. Quinn pulled no punches in what he thought about civic affairs."

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