Stephen F. Lynch

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephen F. Lynch
Occupation	Member Of The U.S. House
Date Of Birth	Mar 31, 1955(1955-03-31)
Age	69
Birthplace	South Boston
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aries

Stephen F. Lynch Biography

Stephen F. Lynch is one of the most popular and richest Member Of The U.S. House who was born on March 31, 1955 in South Boston, United States.

Stephen Francis Lynch (born March 31, 1955) is an American politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district, which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer, and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court.

He was arrested in 1977 for smoking marijuana at a Willie Nelson concert at the Illinois State Fair, leading to a $50 misdemeanor fine. He was again arrested in 1979 for assault and battery of six Iranian students at an anti- American protest in Boston, a charge which was later dropped. Around this time, he developed “a problem with alcohol,” leading him to join Alcoholics Anonymous. (He reportedly stopped after meeting his future wife several years later, although he continued to attend occasional meetings through the 2000s.)

Stephen F. Lynch Net Worth

Stephen F. Lynch is one of the richest Member Of The U.S. House from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen F. Lynch 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Lynch, the fourth of six children, was born March 31, 1955, in the neighborhood of South Boston. He was raised with his five sisters in the Old Colony Housing Project. His father, Francis Lynch, was an ironworker who had dropped out of school in the eighth grade. His mother, Anne (née Havlin), was a night-shift post office worker. Both parents came from fourth-generation South Boston families. He attended St. Augustine Elementary School and South Boston High School. During high school vacations he began working in construction alongside his father. After graduating from high school in 1973, Lynch became an apprentice ironworker. For the next six years he worked on high-altitude structural ironwork throughout the United States for various companies, including General Motors and U.S. Steel.

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Who is Stephen F. Lynch Dating?

According to our records, Stephen F. Lynch married to Margaret Shaughnessy Lynch. As of December 1, 2023, Stephen F. Lynch’s is not dating anyone.

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Lynch dated Margaret Shaughnessy for 10 years before the two married in 1992. Shaughnessy, an aide to state Senator Marian Walsh, was from another South Boston family, one of seven children, and majored in graphic design at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She had gone to high school with Lynch’s sisters, and she and Lynch were members of the South Boston Residents Group. As of 2010, Stephen and Margaret Lynch live in South Boston with their daughter Victoria Bailey Lynch and a niece, Crystal Shaughnessy. For most of his career, Lynch has been listed in the member’s roll as “D-South Boston.”

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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Member Of The U.S. House. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Stephen F. Lynch celebrates birthday on March 31 of every year.

As a state senator, Lynch continued to lead opposition to the proposed football stadium and was a vocal opponent of a proposal to sell the publicly owned Marine Industrial Park. He opposed a hate-crimes bill which would make racially charged language a felony, and harkened back to the 1994 racial violence case as an example. He charged that the bill “attacks merely words” and “prosecutes young people who, in my opinion, haven’t developed the responsibility and wisdom to measure their words.” On the Senate Transportation Committee, he cosponsored a bill in June 1996 to allow certain Boston residents unlimited access to the Ted Williams Tunnel. In 1997 he was named Senate Chairman of the Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor. In response to a budget crisis in the state’s nursing homes, due primarily to Medicaid shortfalls, he filed an unsuccessful bill in April 2001 to increase Medicaid funding by $200 million. While in the Senate, Lynch enrolled in Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, from which he graduated with a master’s degree in 1999.

Is Stephen Lynch a Republican?

Democratic Party

How long has Stephen F Lynch been in office?

Lynch won a special election to represent the state’s 9th district in the United States House of Representatives in 2001, and has been re-elected ever since. His district was redrawn into the 8th district in 2013. He sits on the Financial Services and Oversight and Government Reform Committees.

What is Stephen Lynch's position on climate change?

With this in mind, Congressman Lynch introduced the Climate Change National Security Strategy Act to ensure that the Federal Government appropriately considers climate change in the development of national security strategies and policies.

What towns does Stephen Lynch represent?

In Plymouth County: Abington, Bridgewater, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Hingham, Hull, Scituate, West Bridgewater, and Whitman.

Is Stephen Lynch married?

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