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,
Austin American-Statesman 1873. After absorbing the "Austin Tribune" in 1914, it published as the afternoon "Austin Statesman and Tribune", then became an evening paper and changed its name to the "Austin Evening Statesman" in 1916. A rival paper, the morning "Austin American", began in 1914. Waco-based newspapermen Charles E. Marsh and E.S. Fentress bought the "American" in 1919 and the "Evening Statesman" in 1924. Merged under one company, the morning and evening papers published separately during the week and combined for a Sunday "Austin American Statesman" edition. The company continued separate titles until 1973, when all products became the "American-Statesman", with four