Joseph Charles Hugh Flynn (January 22, 1892 – June 26, 1941) was a lawyer, politician, and judge from New York.
[5] He was a secretary to New York Supreme Court Justice Leander B. Faber, although he resigned from the position in 1917[6] to serve as head of the Army Intelligence Bureau at Governors Island during World War I with the rank of sergeant.
[12] In January 1939, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed and inducted him magistrate[13] to fill an unexpired term.
[2] Flynn died from a heart attack at the Park Central Hotel, where he was having dinner with his father-in-law Dr. P. J. York, on June 26, 1941.
The honorary pallbearers included New York Court of Appeals Associate Judge Albert Conway, Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court Justice John B. Johnston, New York Supreme Court Justices Charles C. Lockwood, John MacCrate, Peter P. Smith, Thomas J. Cuff, and Benedict Dineem, Chief Magistrate Henry Curran and other magistrates, Republican leader John R. Crews, Assemblyman Robert J.
A police radio patrol car escorted the funeral cortege to the burial at Holy Cross Cemetery.