Thomas Lynch (politician, 1727)

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Portrait of Thomas Lynch senior.

Thomas Lynch (* 1727 in Berkeley County , Province of South Carolina , † December 1776 in Annapolis , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1774 and 1776 he was a delegate for South Carolina at the Continental Congress .

Career

Thomas Lynch attended public schools in his home country. He then became a successful rice planter who ran several plantations in South Carolina. At the same time he was involved in politics. Between 1751 and 1772 he sat several times in the colonial House of Representatives . In 1765 he was also a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress , where the Thirteen Colonies discussed how to counter the law of the same name . From 1769 to 1774 he was also a member of the still colonial General Committee .

In the 1770s he joined the revolutionary movement. In 1775 and 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress of his homeland; from 1774 to 1776 he represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress. He was also a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . In 1776 he fell ill so that he was no longer able to sign the United States' Declaration of Independence . He died in December 1776 on the way home from the Continental Congress in Annapolis. His son of the same name Thomas (1749–1779) then took his seat in the Continental Congress. Through his daughter Elizabeth, Thomas Lynch Sr. was the grandfather of James Hamilton (1786-1857), who was governor of South Carolina between 1830 and 1832 .

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SURNAME Lynch, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Berkeley County , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH December 1776
Place of death Annapolis , Maryland