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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, attorney, military officer, author, and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives and represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives.
Lynch's Locust Street jail had previously been run by the slave trader John R. White and his partner Toomey; an 1848 ad promised "secure fastenings" for holding slaves ("B. M. Lynch - Successor to White & Tooley" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 11, 1848)
John R. Lynch was born into slavery in 1847 and was freed in 1863 after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. He entered politics shortly after the end of the Civil War , was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1869, and was made speaker of the house in 1872.
Pages in category "African-American history in St. Louis" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
It had its beginnings in 1817 when John Mason Peck and the former enslaved John Berry Meachum began holding church services for African Americans in St. Louis. [22] Meachum founded the First African Baptist Church in 1827. Although there were ordinances preventing blacks from assembling, the congregation grew from 14 people at its founding to ...
The Griot is the second African American wax museum in the country, the first being National Great Blacks In Wax Museum in Baltimore. Founder Lois Conley was born in St. Louis and attended Saint Louis University for both her B.A. in Communications and M.A. in Education.
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John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) [2] John Willis Menard – Louisiana, 1868 elected but not seated Thomas E. Miller – South Carolina September 24, 1890 – March 3, 1891 (also South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House, and South Carolina Constitutional Convention) [ 2 ]