Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. , was a Shreveport oilman who in 1964 waged the first well-organized Republican bid for the Louisiana governorship since Reconstruction. Lyons also made a strong but losing bid for the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1961. He is often considered the "father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana."
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- Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr. , was a Shreveport oilman who in 1964 waged the first well-organized Republican bid for the Louisiana governorship since Reconstruction. Lyons also made a strong but losing bid for the United States House of Representatives in a special election in 1961. He is often considered the "father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana."
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- Charlton Lyons
Louisiana Republican pioneer
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- Charlton Lyons, Sr. (born 1921 and Hall McCord Lyons (1923-1998)
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- (1) Lyons is usually considered "the father of the modern Republican Party in Louisiana."
The Marjorie Lyons Playhouse at Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport is named for Mrs. Lyons, herself an actress.
Lyons was also a lawyer but practiced only briefly while living in Winnfield, the ancestral of the Long political dynasty.
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- Marjorie Hall Lyons (1895-1971, married 1917-her death)
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