Stephen Lynch

Stephen Lynch grew up with five sisters in South Boston's Old Colony public housing, the son of a postal clerk and an ironworker.¹ He followed his father into Ironworkers Local 7 and spent 18 years in the trade.² He and his wife, Margaret, raised their daughter and niece in South Boston.²

Lynch studied at night and on weekends at Wentworth Institute of Technology, earning a construction management degree.² He later earned a law degree at Boston College and became a labor lawyer, including representing tenants from the public housing development where he grew up.¹ He also earned a master's in public administration at Harvard while serving in the state Senate.²

His union work included serving as Local 7's president, followed by election to the Massachusetts House and Senate and then Congress in 2001.² In the state Senate, he chaired the Commerce and Labor Committee.² He also helped found the Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus, which promotes workers' rights.²

Lynch is now the senior Democrat on the Financial Services subcommittee covering digital assets, financial technology and artificial intelligence, and also serves on government oversight.² His policy work has emphasized labor protections and the effects of trade on industrial communities.² He faces Republican Robert Burke in November.³