Bios & Family Stories > Misc. Bios > Gaynor, Frank R.

Served on the Iowa Supreme Court from January 1, 1913, until his death August 2, 1920. For one year he was Chief Justice.

Born in Toronto, Canada, September 2, 1852, his family moved to Fayette county, Iowa, in 1856. He was graduated from Griswold College in Davenport before attending the University of Iowa where he was graduated from the Law Department in 1877. He first began the practice of law at Brooklyn, Iowa but in 1885 he moved to Marshalltown and the following year to Le Mars. In 1891 he became a Judge of the District Court where he continued to serve for twenty-two years until elected to the Supreme Bench.

Judge Gaynor died at Des Moines.

Source of biographical sketch (verbatim transcription) and portrait: Annals of Iowa, 3rd series, Volume XXVI, Issue 3, January 1945, page 209.
Transcriber’s note: Francis Robert "Frank" Gaynor is buried in Masonic Cemetery, Polk County, Iowa.