James K. Coyne III | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's8th district | |
| In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1983 | |
| Preceded by | Peter H. Kostmayer |
| Succeeded by | Peter H. Kostmayer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Kitchenman Coyne III (1946-11-17)November 17, 1946 (age 78) Farmville,Virginia |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BS) Harvard University (MBA) |
James Kitchenman Coyne III (born November 17, 1946) is an American businessman and former politician. From 1981 to 1983, he served one term as aRepublican member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
Coyne was born inFarmville, Virginia, and raised in Abington, Pennsylvania, the son of James Kitchenman Coyne Jr. and Pearl Beatrice Black. He graduated fromYale University in 1968 and received an M.B.A. fromHarvard Business School in 1970. He was a lecturer at theWharton School at theUniversity of Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1979 and was president of the George S. Coyne Chemical Corp., Inc., from 1971 to 1981. Coyne was the supervisor ofUpper Makefield Township in 1980.
He was elected in1980 as a Republican to the97th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in1982.
After his term in Congress, he served from 1983 to 1985 as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and as director of theWhite House Office of Private Sector Initiatives, in 1985–1986 as chief executive officer of the American Consulting Engineers Council, and as president of theAmerican Tort Reform Association from 1986 to 1988. In 1987, he founded Americans to Limit Congressional Terms.
Coyne co-authored (withJohn Fund) "Cleaning House," which promoted state referendums to limit the terms of Members of Congress. In 1994 he was chosen president of the National Air Transportation Association, where he served until 2012.
He married Helen Biddle Mercer on October 24, 1970. They have three children, Alexander Black Coyne (born 1977), Katherine Mercer Coyne (born 1980) and Michael Atkinson Coyne (born 1982). He is a great-great-grandson ofPhiladelphia manufacturerJames Kitchenman.
| U.S. House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania's 8th congressional district 1981-1983 | Succeeded by |
| U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) | ||
| Preceded byas Former US Representative | Order of precedence of the United States as Former US Representative | Succeeded byas Former US Representative |
