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Bruce Newton Lynn, I, (born March 25, 1925) is a retired north Caddo Parish businessman and banker who was a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976–1988. He is a native and resident of the village of Gilliam (pronounced GIL LAM), where three generations of his family have operated the J.W. Lynn cotton plantation. ==Background== Lynn was born to J. W. Lynn, an Arkansas native, and the former Irene Bruce (1895–1982), originally from Kansas City, Kansas. He graduated in 1942 from the former Belcher High School. He attended Texas A&M University in College Station and later Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, but he did not graduate from either institution. Instead he later completed banking school. Lynn, a U.S. Marine, was stationed in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. In 1949, he married the former Margaret Eugenia Johnson (May 16, 1926 – October 3, 2014), who was born in Shreveport and reared in Doyline in south Webster Parish. She graduated from Doyline High School, attended business school, and worked at the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant west of Minden during World War II. It was while she was later employed at Continental Bank that she first met Bruce Lynn.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Margaret Lynn )〕 The two Lynn children are Bruce N. Lynn, Jr (born 1950), who operates the family farm, and a daughter, Pamela Lynn Broesamle (born 1952) of Scotts Valley near San Jose, California. The couple had five grandchildren. Ross Alexander Lynn (1979-2013), a photographer, mountain climber and former Montana resident, was killed at the age of thirty-three in a farming accident on the Lynn plantation. The Ross Alexander Lynn Foundation has been established in his honor in Ruston. Coincidentally, both of Ross Alexander Lynn's grandmothers, Margaret Lynn, and Juel Downs Chappell (1919-2014), died on the same day. Ross Alexander Lynn through his mother, Jane Downs Watts, was a nephew of former Louisiana State Representative Hollis Downs of Ruston.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Juel Chappell Obituary )〕 Lynn's namesake grandson and the older brother of Ross Alexander Lynn is Bruce N. Lynn, III, known as Newt Lynn (born 1975), of Shreveport. As of Mrs. Lynn's death, the couple also had five great-grandchildren. Lynn is a member of the Belcher Presbyterian Church, of which Mrs. Lynn was the long-term church treasurer.〔 With his background in cotton production, Lynn was in 1970 the president of the National Cotton Council, a trade association based in Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. He remains an advisor to the council board. Because he was in Washington with the cotton council late in 1980, he became a member of the transition team for President-elect Ronald W. Reagan. Lynn said the election of Reagan remains the highlight of his personal political interest. Lynn was affiliated with the former Louisiana Bank and Trust Company in Shreveport from 1970 to 1987. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bruce Lynn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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