Stephen Lynch (politician)

Stephen F. Lynch ( born March 31, 1955 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Since January 2001, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Lynch attended until 1973, the South Boston High School. He served an apprenticeship in the iron industry and worked for some time in this industry. Until 1988 he continued his education at Wentworth Institute in Boston continued. After studying law at the Law School of Boston College and his admission to the bar he began to work in this profession for some time. In 1998 he graduated from the Harvard University. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1995 and 1996 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the State Senate.

After the death of Mr Joe Moakley Lynch was due in the election for the ninth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 16 October 2001. After five previous elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in six subcommittees. In his time as a congressman of the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell.