(1825-1892) a U.S. Representative, was born in Portland on February 18, 1825. He attended the public schools, was graduated from the Portland High School in 1842.
Lynch engaged in business and was manager of the Portland Daily Press in 1862. A member of the Maine House of Representatives 1862-1864, he was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1873). He was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-first Congress), and the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Treasury (Forty-second Congress).
He moved to Washington, D.C. and established the Washington Daily Union in 1877. Lynch, who engaged in the manufacture of bricks and drainpipes in Washington, D.C., died while on a visit in Portland on July 21, 1892, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.