Thomas Lynch (statesman) Thomas Lynch (statesman) Thomas Lynch (1727–1776) was an American planter and statesman from South Carolina. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. Thomas Lynch was born in St. James Parish, Berkeley County, South Carolina, in 1727. He served in the Colonial Legislature of South Carolina and represented the Colony in the Stamp Act Congress, heading the committee which drafted the petition to the House of Commons. Elected to both the First and Second Continental Congresses, Lynch joined Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Harrison on a committee sent to Cambridge,
Bill Libby Sportswriter of the Year. He was named to the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. Libby and wife Sharon had two daughters, Allyson and Laurie Libby. Bill Libby Bill Libby (1927 – June 17, 1984) was an American writer and biographer best known for books on sports including 65 on sports figures. Libby graduated from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, also attended by several notable authors including Kurt Vonnegut. He attended Indiana University then served in the Navy. In the 1950s, Libby was sports editor of the Herald Statesman, then later worked for the New York Post.