W. J. H. Traynor

William J.H Traynor (born July 4, 1845 in Brantford, Ontario) was an American and Canadian activist. He is most well known for heading the American Protective Association, a nativist, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish group that promoted Protestantism and the preservation of white Anglo-Saxon America.[1] He moved to Detroit, where he was a newspaper proprietor. He was elected president of the American Protective Association in 1893 during its peak of influence around the 1890s.

Traynor was also an avid member of the Loyal Orange Lodge, being of Ulster-Scotch ancestry. He continued to lead the APA until H.F. Bowers was reelected as leader in 1903. He spent most of his life living in Detroit, Michigan.

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  1. ↑ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01426a.htm
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