Patrick Lynch (Australian politician)

Patrick Lynch
President of the Senate
In office
31 August 1932 – 30 June 1938
Preceded byWalter Kingsmill
Succeeded byJohn Hayes
Minister for Works and Railways
In office
14 November 1916 – 17 February 1917
Prime MinisterBilly Hughes
Preceded byNew office
Succeeded byWilliam Watt
Senator for Western Australia
In office
1 July 1907 – 30 June 1938
Personal details
Born(1867-05-24)24 May 1867
Skearke, County Meath, Ireland
Died15 January 1944(1944-01-15) (aged 76)
Mount Lawley, Western Australia, Australia
Political partyLabor (to 1917)
Nationalist (1917–31)
UAP (from 1931)
Spouses
Annie Cleary
(m. 1901⁠–⁠1931)
Mary Brown
(m. 1933)
OccupationEngineer

Patrick Joseph Lynch (24 May 1867 – 15 January 1944) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1907 to 1938. He was President of the Senate from 1932 to 1938. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP), but after the party split of 1916 joined the Nationalist Party and later the United Australia Party (UAP).