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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was an American writer, ... During Reconstruction, Lynch became a prominent political leader in Mississippi.
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.
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 ]
Kirkland Leroy Irvis (December 27, 1919 – March 16, 2006) was an American educator, activist and politician in Pennsylvania. The first African American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction (John Roy Lynch (1847–1939) of Mississippi had been the first African American to hold that position) Irvis was a Democrat who represented ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed Colleen Shogan, the Archivist of the United States, and announced plans to shake up the board of the ...
Lynch, John R. (1913). The Facts of Reconstruction. New York: The Neale Publishing Company. Archived from the original on January 13, 2020; McPherson, James M. The struggle for equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction (Princeton University Press, 1964) online; McPherson, James M.
Steven Spielberg, who cast Lynch as legendary Hollywood director John Ford in his 2022 film The Fabelmans, paid tribute to Lynch in a statement: “I loved David’s films.
Fans of acclaimed director David Lynch are in mourning after his family confirmed the tragic news of his passing. The director departed after a tough year in which he battled the advancing effects ...