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==Journalist and inspector general==

==Journalist and inspector general==

After his military service concluded in 1953, Lynch returned to ''The Shreveport Times'', where he became an assistant city editor and political reporter until 1965. At ''The  Times'', Lynch covered the 1959 saga of then [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], the relationship with stripper Blaze Starr, and Long's commitment to the state mental hospital in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. He established ''The Shreveport Times'' bureau in Baton Rouge, from which he did most of his newspaper investigative work. In 1965, he launched a 14-year association with the since defunct ''New Orleans States-Item''. He covered the destructive Hurricane Betsy, which struck the [[Gulf Coast]] and [[New Orleans]] area in 1965.<ref name=bio/>​

After his military service concluded in 1953, Lynch returned to ''The Shreveport Times'', where he became an assistant city editor and political reporter until 1965. At ''The  Times'', Lynch covered the 1959 saga of then [[Governor]] [[Earl Long|Earl Kemp Long]], the relationship with stripper Blaze Starr, and Long's commitment to the state mental hospital in Mandeville in St. Tammany Parish. He established ''The Shreveport Times'' bureau in Baton Rouge, from which he did most of his newspaper investigative work. In 1965, he began a 14-year association with the since defunct ''New Orleans States-Item''. He covered the destructive Hurricane Betsy, which struck the [[Gulf Coast]] and [[New Orleans]] area in 1965.<ref name=bio/>​

 

From 1979 to 1988, he worked at the Baton Rouge bureau of ''The New Orleans Times-Picayune'', during which time his investigations into the third term of Governor [[Edwin Edwards]] led to Edwards' indictment in 1984 on federal charges dealing with the licensure of hospitals and nursing homes. Edwards and his brother, Marion Edwards, were acquitted in a second trial after a hung jury developed in the first case.<ref name=bio/>​ But Edwards later wound up with a prison sentence on another charge.

In 1978, Lynch was featured on "Reporter's Notebook" on the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] weekly series, ''Louisiana: The State We're In.''<ref>{{cite we|url=http://www.ladigitalmedia.org/video_v2/sublisting/LSWI/39|title="Louisiana The State We're In''|publisher=Ladigitalmedia.org|accessdate=March 12, 2019}}</ref>

 

In April 1988, Governor [[Buddy Roemer]], under executive order, named Lynch to the newly established position of inspector general because, in Roemer's words, Lynch had "honor, honesty and a knowledge of government. He was the inspector general of the press corps. He called it like he saw it. He wasn't in anybody's pocket. He cared about Louisiana and wanted to make it a better place."<ref name=bio/> Lynch remained Inspector General until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oig.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=6&pnid=2&pid=3&catid=0|title=History|publisher=oig. Louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref>

Lynch remained Inspector General until his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oig.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=pagebuilder&tmp=home&nid=6&pnid=2&pid=3&catid=0|title=History|publisher=oig. Louisiana.gov|accessdate=November 26, 2013}}</ref>

==Legacy==

==Legacy==