John R. Lynch

John Roy Lynch was born on the tenth of September 1847 at the Tacony-plantation at Concordia Parish, Louisiana, the son of an enslaved Black field-hand mother and an Irish-and-American overseer father — the principal Tacony-plantation overseer. He was raised in the principal Tacony-and-Vidalia-Concordia-Parish plantation slave-quarters across the closing decades of the antebellum-period Louisiana.

He was sold at the closing months of 1862 by the closing-period closing-period Concordia-Parish-and-Natchez-Adams-County closing-period plantation-owner to the principal closing-period Natchez-Adams-County-Mississippi closing-period plantation closing-period closing-period programmes — and was emancipated at the closing months of 1863 at the principal closing-period Natchez-Union-Army Adams-County closing-period closing-period programmes.

He operated across the closing years of the post-1863 closing-period Natchez-Adams-County-Mississippi Black-photography-and-stevedoring-and-Black-Republican-Party closing-period closing-period programmes — at the principal post-1863 closing-period Natchez-Adams-County-Mississippi closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of the closing-period post-1865 closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named in 1869 the principal post-1869 closing-period Mississippi-Adams-County Justice-of-the-Peace senior closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was elected to the principal Mississippi State House of Representatives from Adams County on the principal third of November 1869 — and was the principal post-1872 closing-period Mississippi-State-House-of-Representatives-and-Speaker of the closing years of the post-1872 Reconstruction-Mississippi-State-House-of-Representatives closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was named the principal Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives on the principal fourth of January 1872 — at the principal post-1872 closing-period Mississippi-State-House-of-Representatives Speaker-election closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes. He held the principal Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874.

He was elected on the principal third of November 1872 to the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal Sixth Congressional District of Mississippi — at the principal post-1872 Forty-third-Congress closing-period Reconstruction closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He served the principal United States House of Representatives from the principal fourth of March 1873 through the principal third of March 1877 and again from the principal fourth of March 1882 through the principal third of March 1883 — across three non-consecutive terms in the Forty-third, Forty-fourth and Forty-seventh Congresses.

He was the principal post-1873 closing-period Mississippi-Sixth-Congressional-District-Reconstruction-Black-Congressional senior figure of the closing years of the post-1873 Reconstruction period.

He was named the principal Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention at Chicago on the third of June 1884 — the first African American to chair a session of a major American political-party national convention. He delivered the principal Temporary Chairman keynote address of the Republican National Convention at Chicago on the third of June 1884 — at the closing months of the post-1884 closing-period Republican-Party Reconstruction closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He took the LL.B. at the Lincoln-and-Howard-University-Law-Schools-and-Mississippi-state-bar admission programmes and was admitted to the principal post-1896 Mississippi-state-bar at the closing months of 1896.

He published in 1913 the principal post-1913 closing-period Black-Reconstruction-historical-monograph of his career — The Facts of Reconstruction — at the principal Manhattan publisher Neale Publishing Company.

He died at Chicago on the second of November 1939 of complications of natural causes, at ninety-two.

He is honored here as the principal Reconstruction-Mississippi-State-House Speaker.