James K. Coyne, III

James Coyne Kitchenman III ( born November 17, 1946 in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia) is an American politician. Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Coyne attended until 1964, the Abington High School in Pennsylvania and then studied until 1968 at Yale University. This was followed up in 1970 to study at the Harvard Business School. In the following years he worked as a private businessman and business consultant. Between 1974 and 1979 he lectured at the Wharton School, which is part of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1971 to 1981 he also led the company Coyne Chemical Corp.. In 1980 he was mayor of the municipality of Upper Makefield. Politically, he joined the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1980, Coyne was in the eighth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Peter H. Mayer took food on January 3, 1981 he had defeated in the election. Since he lost to food Mayer in 1982 and so this also became his successor, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1983.

Between 1983 and 1985 he was employed as director of the White House Office of Private Sector Initiatives for extended staff of President Ronald Reagan. In the years 1985 and 1986 he was Managing Director of the American Consulting Engineers Council. Since 1994 he is president of the National Air Transportation Association. With his wife, Helen, he has three grown children.