Byron Boyd

{{short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|image = Photo_SOS_014_Byron_Boyd_Augusta_1897_1907_206946.jpg

|office = 29th Secretary of State of Maine

|term_start = 1897

|term_end = 1907

|governor = Llewellyn Powers
John Fremont Hill
William T. Cobb

|predecessor = Nicholas Fessenden

|successor = Arthur I. Brown

|birth_date = August 31, 1864

|birth_place = Victoria Corner, New Brunswick, Canada

|death_date = {{death date and age|1941|6|6|1864|8|31}}

|death_place = Augusta, Maine, U.S.

|party = Republican

|alma_mater = Houlton Academy
Colby College

}}

Robert Byron Boyd (August 31, 1864 – July 6, 1941) was an American politician and businessperson from Maine. A Republican from Augusta, Boyd served as Secretary of State of Maine from 1897 to 1907.{{cite book|last=Coe|first=Harrie B.|title=Maine Biographies: Excerpted from Maine Resources, Attractions, and Its People: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xGm94QH4K4C&pg=PA283|accessdate=15 December 2013|year=2003|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|isbn=9780806351247|pages=283–}}

Boyd was born in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada in 1864 and moved with his family at the age of four to Linneus, Maine in the United States. He graduated from Houlton Academy, which later became Ricker College as well as Colby College.

He died in 1941 and is buried in Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34576527/the_boston_globe/|title=Byron Boyd, Maine Republican Leader, Buried at Augusta|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=July 9, 1941|page=15|accessdate=August 4, 2019}}{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14650.html|title=The Political Graveyard: Burleigh family of Maine|accessdate=15 December 2013|archive-date=2 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120202172419/http://politicalgraveyard.com/families/14650.html|url-status=dead}}