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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiLYNCH, John Roy
(1847—1939)
LYNCH, John Roy, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Vidalia, Concordia Parish, La., September 10, 1847; after his father’s death moved with his mother to Natchez, Miss., in 1863, where they were held as slaves; after emancipation engaged in photography and attended evening school; appointed by Governor Ames as a justice of the peace in 1869; member of the State house of representatives 1869-1873 and served the last term as speaker; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1872, 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1900; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; successfully contested the election of James R. Chalmers to the Forty-seventh Congress and served from April 29, 1882, to March 3, 1883; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress; returned to his plantation in Adams County, Miss., and engaged in agricultural pursuits; chairman of the Republican State executive committee 1881-1889; member of the Republican National Committee for the State of Mississippi 1884-1889; temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1884; Fourth Auditor of the Treasury for the Navy Department under President Harrison 1889-1893; studied law; was admitted to the Mississippi bar in 1896; returned to Washington, D.C., in 1897, where he practiced his profession until 1898, when he was appointed a major and additional paymaster of Volunteers during the Spanish-American War by President William McKinley; was appointed by President McKinley as a paymaster in the Regular Army with the rank of captain in 1901; was promoted to major in 1906; retired from the Regular Army in 1911; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1912 and continued the practice of his profession until his death in that city on November 2, 1939; interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Lynch, John Roy. Reminiscences of an Active Life
. Edited by John Hope Franklin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970; McLaughlin, James Harold. “John R. Lynch, The Reconstruction Politician: A Historical Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., Ball State University, 1981.
Bell, Frank C. “The Life and Times of John R. Lynch: A Case Study 1847-1939.” Journal of Mississippi History
38 (February 1976): 53-67.
Franklin, John Hope. “Lynch, John Roy.” In Dictionary of American Negro Biography,
edited by Rayford W. Logan and Michael R. Winston, pp. 407-9. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1982.
”John Roy Lynch” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Lynch, John Roy. Colored Americans: John R. Lynch’s Appeal To Them
. Milwaukee: Allied Printing, [1900?]
———. The Facts of Reconstruction.
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1913. Reprint, edited by William C. Harris, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., [1970].
———. The Late Election in Mississippi.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877.
———. Reminiscences of an Active Life.
Edited and with an Introduction by John Hope Franklin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1970.
———. Some Historical Errors of James Ford Rhodes.
Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Co., 1922.
Mann, Kenneth Eugene. “John Roy Lynch: U.S. Congressman from Mississippi.” Negro History Bulletin
37 (April/May 1974): 238-41.
McLaughlin, James Harold. “John R. Lynch, The Reconstruction Politician: A Historical Perspective.” Ph.D. diss., Ball State University, 1981.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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