Lynchburg
Americannoun
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The “country editor,” as the Lynchburg, Va., native styled himself, was elected to Congress in 1902, later becoming the chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“That’s our genre,” he said in a 2011 interview with the News and Advance in Lynchburg, Va., near his home on a 362-acre horse farm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2026
In her poems, Brown, who has cerebral palsy, wrestles with the reality of being raised in the shadow of one of the infamous eugenics hospital founded by DeJarnette in Lynchburg, VA.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2024
The geography doesn’t make sense for Liberty, which is located in Lynchburg, Va. Were that the primary motivation, the Flames could have been assigned to Atlanta or Dallas.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Stepping in quickly to nip the embarrassment, Carrie’s foster parents brought her before the same municipal judge that had sent her mother, Emma, to Lynchburg.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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