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In the second Edwards administration, the legislature passed the so-called "Lynch Law", which allowed courts to assess punitive damages in [[libel]] cases, but the measure was repealed during the term of [[Republican Party|Republican]] Governor [[David C. Treen]]. When Edwards returned for his fourth term as governor in 1992, he retained Lynch as inspector general as a concession to Roemer, whose support he drew in the 1991 gubernatorial [[general election]] with [[David Duke]], the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman who was the nominal Republican candidate that year.<ref name=bio/>
In the second Edwards administration, the legislature passed the so-called "Lynch Law", which allowed courts to assess punitive damages in [[libel]] cases, but the measure was repealed during the term of [[Republican Party|Republican]] Governor [[David C. Treen]]. When Edwards returned for his fourth term as governor in 1992, he retained Lynch as inspector general as a concession to Roemer, whose support he drew in the 1991 gubernatorial [[general election]] with [[David Duke]], the former [[Ku Klux Klan]]sman who was the nominal Republican candidate that year.<ref name=bio/>
However, Edwards believed that the office of inspector general constituted a duplication of services provided by the Louisiana State Police, state ttorney general, and local [[district attorney]]s. He therefore stripped Lynch of much of his power. No longer could the inspector general investigate colleges and universities; at the time Lynch had been conducting probes into various activities involving Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish]], [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], and LSU and the historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge. Lynch was allowed to continue to investigate the governor—something of a challenge that Edwards set forward—but could not investigate any of the six other statewide officials.<ref>"Governor Edwards outlines powers of the state's inspector general", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 21, 1992, p. 1.</ref> Subsequent governors set their own priorities for the inspector general's office.
However, Edwards believed that the office of inspector general constituted a duplication of services provided by the Louisiana State Police, state ttorney general, and local [[district attorney]]s. He therefore stripped Lynch of much of his power. No longer could the inspector general investigate colleges and universities; at the time Lynch had been conducting probes into various activities involving Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish, [[Northwestern State University]] in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], and LSU and the historically black Southern University in Baton Rouge. Lynch was allowed to continue to investigate the governor—something of a challenge that Edwards set forward—but could not investigate any of the six other statewide officials.<ref>"Governor Edwards outlines powers of the state's inspector general", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 21, 1992, p. 1.</ref> Subsequent governors set their own priorities for the inspector general's office.
Lynch was twice honored by the Alliance for Good Government in New Orleans and by the New Orleans Press Club.<ref name=bio/> In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php|title=Louisiana Political Museum (2005)|publisher=Lapoliticalmuseum.com|accessdate=March 11, 2019}}</ref> Lynch's colleague, Jack Wardlaw, was inducted into the hall of fame a year earlier in 2004.
Lynch was twice honored by the Alliance for Good Government in New Orleans and by the New Orleans Press Club.<ref name=bio/> In 2005, he was posthumously inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapoliticalmuseum.com/inductees.php|title=Louisiana Political Museum (2005)|publisher=Lapoliticalmuseum.com|accessdate=March 11, 2019}}</ref> Lynch's colleague, Jack Wardlaw, was inducted into the hall of fame a year earlier in 2004.