Charles Lynch
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American politician and lawyer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Lynch was a Democratic and Whig politician who served as Governor of Mississippi and was a former enslaver. Early life and career Charles Lynch was born in 1783 in either South Carolina or Virginia. He was born into a planter family, and settled as a farmer near Monticello, Mississippi, sometime before 1821, when he was appointed probate judge of Lawrence County, Mississippi. According to the 1820 US Federal Census, Lynch also enslaved seven people.
