Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789 - 2015. Isaac Bassett's Papers, ca. 1880 - ca. 1895. Book 40
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Lynch, John Roy, 1847-1939
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John Roy Lynch (September 10, 1847 – November 2, 1939) was a black Republican politician, writer, attorney and military officer. Born into slavery in Louisiana, he became free in 1863 under the Emancipation Proclamation. His father was an Irish immigrant and his parents had a common-law marriage. After serving for several years in the state legislature, in 1873 Lynch was elected as the first African-American Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives; he was the first black man (conside...
