Norman Byrnes (lawyer)

Norman Thomas Byrnes (December 15, 1922 – July 9, 2009) was a 20th-century American attorney and public citizen of Boston, Massachusetts.

He was one of 12 children[2] (one of his siblings being professor and author Robert Byrnes) and grew up in relative poverty.

[3] He was graduated from Harvard College then fought in Western and Central Europe in World War II, where he earned a Bronze Star Medal and a battlefield commission as an officer.

[5] He was also president of Boston's Abstract Club and a founding member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.

He helped develop air rights for the construction of the Prudential Center, and played a major role in the development of the Federal Reserve Bank Building in Boston (he also served as Senior Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1971 to 1973).

He was president of Massachusetts Half-Way Houses, a charity providing social integration assistance to released prisoners.