Thomas Lynch (congressman)

Thomas Lynch ( born November 21, 1844 in Granville, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, † May 4, 1898 in Antigo, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Lynch was born in 1844 in Granville in what was then Wisconsin Territory. His birthplace was later incorporated into the city of Milwaukee. Lynch attended the public schools of his home and moved in 1864 by Chilton in Calumet County. There he began to work in agriculture. He also held several local offices. In the meantime, he also worked as a teacher. At the same time struck Lynch as a member of the Democratic Party a political career one. Between 1873 and 1883 he sat as an MP in the Wisconsin State Assembly. After studying law at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Chilton to work in his new profession.

From 1878 to 1882, Lynch District Attorney in his home. In 1883 he moved to Antigo. In 1885 and 1888 he won the elections for mayor of this place. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was in the ninth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican Myron McCord on March 4, 1891. After a re-election in 1892 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two legislative sessions. Since 1893, Lynch was chairman of the Committee on Mileage.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Thomas Lynch is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 4 May 1898 in Antigo.

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