Thomas C. Lynch

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For the United States Navy admiral, see Thomas Lynch (admiral).

Thomas Conner Lynch (May 20, 1904 – May 29, 1986) was an American lawyer who served as District Attorney in San Francisco and then as Attorney-General of California from 1964 to 1971. He was appointed to the post by Governor Pat Brown in 1964 to succeed Stanley Mosk, who was appointed to the state Supreme Court by Brown. He placed third in the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary, behind Robert F. Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy.

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Legal offices
Preceded by Stanley Mosk	California Attorney General 1964–1971	Succeeded by Evelle J. Younger

Attorneys General of California

Kewen McDougall Hastings McConnell Stewart Wallace Williams Pixley McCullough Hamilton Love Hamilton A. Hart Marshall Johnson W. Hart Fitzgerald Ford Webb Warren Kenny Howser P. Brown Mosk Lynch Younger Deukmejian Van de Kamp Lungren Lockyer J. Brown Harris

(1964 ←) United States presidential election, 1968 (→ 1972)

United States elections, 1968

Republican Party

Convention
Primaries

Nominee	Richard Nixon campaign

VP nominee	Spiro Agnew

Candidates	Frank Carlson Clifford P. Case Hiram Fong John Lindsay Ronald Reagan Jim Rhodes Nelson Rockefeller Winthrop Rockefeller George W. Romney campaign Harold Stassen John A. Volpe

Democratic Party

Convention
Primaries

Protests

Nominee	Hubert Humphrey campaign

VP nominee	Edmund Muskie

Candidates	Roger D. Branigin John G. Crommelin Paul C. Fisher Lyndon B. Johnson Robert F. Kennedy (campaign) Thomas C. Lynch Eugene McCarthy (campaign) George McGovern Dan K. Moore Channing E. Phillips George Smathers Stephen M. Young

American Independent Party

Nominee	George Wallace campaign

VP nominee	Curtis LeMay

Other third party and independent candidates

Communist Party

Nominee	Charlene Mitchell

VP nominee	Michael Zagarell

Peace and Freedom Party

Nominee	Eldridge Cleaver

VP nominee	Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd

Prohibition Party

Nominee	E. Harold Munn

Socialist Labor Party

Nominee	Henning A. Blomen

Socialist Workers Party

Nominee	Fred Halstead

VP nominee	Paul Boutelle

Independents and other candidates

Other 1968 elections: House
Senate

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