James Thomas Lynn

James Thomas Lynn ( born February 27, 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio; † December 6, 2010 in Bethesda, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party, who served as Minister of Construction of the United States from 1973 to 1975.

Life

Lynn made ​​in 1948 graduated summa cum laude from the Western Reserve University; In 1951, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he belonged to the editors of the Harvard Law Review. He then worked for Jones, Day, Cockley and Reavis, the largest law firm of Cleveland, where he was elevated to partner in 1960.

In 1969, James Lynn came into government services, when he was appointed in the Department of Commerce to the General Counsel (General Counsel ). Two years later, he was Under-Secretary in the Ministry. On 2 February 1973, he put his oath of office as Minister of Building from in the footsteps of George W. Romney. A post he retained even after the first changes in the office of the U.S. president from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford, before he was appointed on 10 February 1975 to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. This he remained until the end of Gerald Ford's term of office on 20 January 1977.

After his political career, Lynn has been a board member of the healthcare provider Aetna; in the 1980s, he went there on as President and Chairman. His party, he served again as general counsel of the Republican National Committee in 1979. Later he was a member of the governing bodies of companies Pfizer and TRW. For the Federal Government, he worked as a member of commissions and committees on financial and economic topics. He is an honorary member of the Brookings Institution.