Richard Doyle

Born December 3, l930 in Rosemount, Minnesota, Richard Doyle attended St. John’s Prep. School, White Bear Lake High School, and St. Thomas College, all in Minnesota.

Doyle served three years with the Marine Corps Reserve, including a stint at officer training school in Quantico, Virginia, and four years with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He was an air traffic controller for over l7 years, both civilian and military.

After resignation, he bored holes in the sky for several years as commercial pilot and flight instructor.

The Minnesota Bar Association sued him for “practicing law without a license.” He beat them in a precedent-setting lawsuit (See page 225), making them pay costs.

Heavily into athletics as a youth, inter alia, he declined a tryout with the Chicago Blackhawks (in a fruitless effort to salvage his marriage), and coached two U.S. teams at the 1986 World Tug of War Tournament in The Netherlands.

Divorced in l957, and now happily re-married, Doyle was shocked by the anti-male prejudice pervasive throughout the court system. He formed the Men’s Rights Association (now Men’s Defense Association) in l972 and was a founding member of Men’s Equality Now (M.E.N.) International, an international coalition of similar organizations, in l977. For over 30 years, he edited and published The Liberator, foremost newspaper in the men’s movement.

The National Coalition of Free Men NCFM awarded Doyle a plaque bearing this inscription: “With sincere gratitude for a lifetime of selfless service to the men’s and fathers’ rights movement…”

“To Dick Doyle, who for years has been the backbone—& brain & muscle—of the Men’s Rights Movement… Dan Amneus” (This from Amneus’ autograph in Doyle’s copy of the Amneus book Back to Patriarchy).

New York writer Max Freedman dubbed Doyle a “mensch,” a high honor among those of Jewish persuasion.

Honorary Life Member in American Legion Post 225, Forest Lake, Minnesota.