Bubby Lyons
| Edward Paul "Bubby" Lyons Only person in Louisiana to serve as mayor of two different cities, Houma and Mandeville) | |
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| Born | June 16, 1929 Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana |
| Political Party | Democrat |
| Spouse | Joan Ortego Lyons (died 2014) Children: |
Edward Paul "Bubby" Lyons , known as Bubby Lyons (born June 16, 1929), is a former mayor of two Louisiana cities, his native Houma in Terrebonne Parish and Mandeville in suburban St. Tammany Parish outside New Orleans. He is thus far the only person to have served as the mayor of two Louisiana cities.
The second mayoral tenure lasted for only five months. He was appointed by the Mandeville City Council to replace Eddie Price, III, who had resigned upon criminal conviction.[1]
In Terrebonne Parish, Lyons was president of the parish council and a member of the former Terrebonne Parish Police Jury, in addition to his time as mayor of Houma. After retiring to Mandeville, he served for five months on the Mandeville City Council in 2000 to complete the unexpired term of Homer Fouquier after Jack McGuire did not seek reelection. Lyons, in applying to be interim mayor, agreed not to be a candidate in the special election held on March 27, 2010, to complete the term to which Price had been elected and which ended in 2012.[2]
In 1988, the Democrat Lyons polled 16 percent of the votes cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Victory went instead to another Democrat, later Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the PSC held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election.
Lyons is retired from Duplantis Truck Lines, Quality Shipyards, and Benton Casing Services, all companies in Houma of which he was a part-owner. He has served on the boards of Terrebonne General Hospital, the Terrebonne Parish Library, Louisiana Energy Power Authority, Florida Parishes Retirement District, and Saint Tammany Parish Events District.
Lyons was married to the former Joan Ortego (1932-2014). Their children are Edward, Jr., Thomas L. "Tommy", Jeff, Lesley, and Ben Lyons.[3] Other finalists for the position of interim mayor were Ray Baas, Clayton Borne, Adolph Ringen, Christina Rukavina, and Glen Runyon; eliminated in the first round were Clifford Bergeron, Stephen Fisher, Phillip Lynch, Leah Martin, Wayne Morgan, Robert Newell, and Maurice Prevost.</ref> Growing up in Houma, Lyons was the first member of his family to have English as his native language.[4]
Lyons is known for his dancing, singing, and storytelling. Often, when given a mere word or topic, he can immediately recall a story from the 1940s in vivid detail. On February 1, 2014, he was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.[5]
References
- ↑ Cindy Chang, "Mandeville mayor resigns under fire" in Times-Picayune, 2009 October 10, pp. A1, A11; "Mayor Price's resignation" in Times-Picayune, 2009 October 10, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4; Cindy Chang, "Council to pick interim mayor: Mandeville then will call special election" in New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 12, 2009, Saint Tammany Edition, pp. B1, B2.
- ↑ Kia Hall Hayes, [http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/update_ray_baas_selected_as_ne.html "North Shore city selects leader", New Orleans Times-Picayune, October 18, 2009, Metro Edition, pp. A1, A8.
- ↑ Suzanne Le Breton, "Lyons named interim mayor of Mandeville, St. Tammany News, July 17, 2011.
- ↑ Cindy Chang, [http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/10/post_71.html ,"Fresh breeze invigorates Mandeville City Hall", Times-Picayune, 2009 October 25, Metro Edition, pp. A1, A14.
- ↑ "Who's famous?", Bossier Press-Tribune, October 2, 2013.
