Quill Project

Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

John R. Lynch

(September 10, 1847 — November 2, 1939) Lynch was a businessman, photographer, lawyer, and politician. John Roy Lynch was born in Louisiana and moved to Mississippi in 1863, where he and his mother were slaves. After emancipation, Lynch worked as a photographer and attended night school. He served in the State House of Representatives from 1869 to 1873, and was the speaker during the last term of his service. Lynch was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1877. He successfully contested the election on of James Chalmers during the Forty-Seventh Congress and served again from April 1882 to March 3, 1883. After serving in Congress, Lynch studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1896. He practiced law in Washington, D. C., until he was appointed a major and paymaster in the Regular Army by President McKinley. He practiced law until his death in 1939. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000533]

Member of Mississippi Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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