Robert Hayworth McKune (August 1823 – October 1894) was an American businessman and politician, elected as mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania, serving 1876 through 1878.
[1][a] He began working as a shoe clerk at age 13; he eventually took over his mother's bakery and opened his own grocery store.
[1] In 1849 he was among the tens of thousands of men who moved to the West Coast to seek his fortune during the California Gold Rush.
A member of the Democratic Party, in 1875 he was elected the fourth mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
[2] In 1877, after the Great Railroad Strike began in West Virginia, he played a pivotal role in the city's preparation for and response to labor unrest, which spread as a general strike and ensuing riots in August.