Melvyn I. Cronin (June 13, 1898 – May 9, 1977) was a United States politician,Join California: Election History for the State of California. Accessed 27 June 2013 lawyer, and judge.
Cronin was born in San Francisco in 1898 and worked in the city's Park and Recreation Department where as a youth he taught baseball to his cousin Joe Cronin of later Boston Red Sox fame. He graduated from St. Ignatius College, later the University of San Francisco, with a degree in law and started a partnership with controversial lawyer Vincent Hallinan. During World War I he served in the United States Army. He was later a member of the California State Assembly for the 27th and 25th district, but resigned from the California State Assembly on January 4, 1942.
From 1953 to 1977, he was a Judge of the California Superior Court, and served in San Francisco as Judge of the Juvenile Court under the Superior Court of California. He was concurrently a member of the California Judicial Council.
He died in San Francisco County in 1977.
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