Robert Lynch

Robert Emmett "Bobby" Lynch (July 30, 1878May 1, 1959) was an American baseball player and manager, salesman, and Democratic politician from Green Bay, Wisconsin. He represented Green Bay for ten terms as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, serving from 1933 to 1937, and then from 1943 to 1959. Early life and baseball career Robert E. Lynch was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1878, to an Irish Catholic family. He attended the University of Notre Dame and, after graduation, was hired as the baseball coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. He went on to coach for Northwestern University, Northwestern Academy, and Clemson University. Between and after his years coaching, he had a 13-year career playing and managing for multiple minor league professional baseball clubs in the Wisconsin–Illinois League, the American Association, and the Western, Eastern, and Southern leagues. Political career He settled in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he had played two seasons of minor league baseball, and went to work as a sales manager for a building materials company. He was an active and prominent member of the Irish American and Catholic communities in Green Bay. In 1932, he was elected president of the diocesan council in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay.