Later Political and Military Career
Lynch was appointed as Treasury Auditor of the Department of Navy (1889-1893). After returning to Mississippi, Lynch studied law and passed the Mississippi bar in 1896. He returned to Washington, DC the following year for his practice.
During the Spanish American War, he was appointed in 1898 as a major and paymaster in the Army by President William McKinley. In 1901, Lynch entered the Regular Army as a captain, gaining promotions to major and serving tours of duty in the United States, Cuba, and the Philippines.
After Lynch retired from the Army in 1911, he married again and moved to Chicago in 1912, where he practiced law. He also became involved in real estate, as the city became a destination of tens of thousands of blacks in the Great Migration and was expanding rapidly under the influence also of European immigration.
After his death in Chicago 1939 at the age of 92, Lynch was buried with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. He was entitled to this as a Congressman and veteran.
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