Walter A. Lynch

Walter Aloysius Lynch ( * July 7, 1894 in New York City; † September 10, 1957 in Belle Harbor, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1940 and 1951 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Aloysius Lynch attended St. Jerome's Parochial School and Fordham Preparatory School. In 1915 he graduated from Fordham University in New York City and 1918 at the jurisprudential Faculty of the same university. After receiving his license to practice law in 1918, he began practicing in New York City. In 1930 he was magistrate in New York City. It was made in 1938 as a delegate part in the Constituent Assembly of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was elected in a by-election in the 22nd electoral district of New York in the 76th Congress, there to fill the vacancy, created by the death of Edward W. Curley. His seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took on 20 February 1940. In the congressional elections of 1940 he was elected to the 77th Congress. He was re-elected once. In 1944 he stood as a candidate in the 23rd electoral district of New York for the 78th Congress. After a successful election, he entered on January 4, 1945, the successor of Charles A. Buckley. Lynch was re-elected twice in a row. He was nominated in 1950 for the 82nd Congress again, but withdrew his candidacy and retired after January 3, 1951 from the Congress of.

His candidacy for the office of governor of New York was unsuccessful. In 1954 he was elected Judge of the New York Supreme Court - a post he held from January 1955 until his death. He died on September 10, 1957 in Belle Harbor ( Queens ) and was then buried in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne.