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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.
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 Adams Hyman – North Carolina 1875–1877 (also North Carolina Senate and North Carolina Constitutional Convention) [2] John Mercer Langston – Virginia 1890–1891 (also U.S. Minister to Haiti) [2] Jefferson F. Long – Georgia 1871 [2] John R. Lynch – Mississippi 1873–1877, 1882–1883 (also speaker of the Mississippi House) [2]
Edmunds's supporters, led by Henry C. Lodge, moved to nominate John R. Lynch instead, an African-American from Mississippi. The speech supporting Lynch was given by Theodore Roosevelt. Lynch won the vote 424 to 384, and Blaine's nomination seemed for the first time vulnerable. [1]
John R. Lynch: 1 st African-American man to serve as speaker of any state lower house Mississippi's 6th District (Created by State Legislature) 1873 1883 Republican Minnie Buckingham Harper: 1 st African-American woman to serve in any state legislature Rep. from Keystone, West Virginia: 1928 1930 Crystal Bird Fauset
John R. Lynch: Republican Speaker Mississippi House of Representatives: January 1872 January 1873 First African-American Speaker of any state legislature Samuel J. Lee: Republican Speaker South Carolina House of Representatives: 1872 1874 Robert B. Elliott: Republican Speaker South Carolina House of Representatives: November 24, 1874 April 14 ...
The Dunning School was criticized by John R. Lynch in his 1913 book The Facts of Reconstruction, in which he argued that African American politicians had made many gains since the end of the Civil War and that those gains were of their own accord. [13]
John R. Lynch (1847–1939), first African-American speaker of the Mississippi House, U.S. representative Ray Mabus (born 1948), governor and Secretary of the Navy ( Starkville ) Lewis McAllister (born 1932), state representative ( Meridian )