Bruce Lynn

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.