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→Political life
===Republican House campaign, 1966===
===Republican House campaign, 1966===
Both Charlton and Hall Lyons were originally [[Democratic Party|Democrats]]. In 1966, having resided for nearly six years in Lafayette, Lyons entered the first of his two political races as a candidate. He challenged the reelection of the nine-term Democratic]] [[U.S. Representative]] Edwin Edward Willis (1904-1972) of St. Martinville Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat, now held by the Republican [[Clay Higgins]]. Willis had first defeated two fellow Democrats in the 1966 party primary, State Representative Richard Guidry of Lafourche Parish and state Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc of Vermilion Parish, who had made a fortune in the patent medicine called Hadacol.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1592776/|title=Everyone gets into state politics|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=August 12, 1966|location=[[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]]|page=15|accessdate=September 11, 2014}}</ref>
Both Charlton and Hall Lyons were originally [[Democratic Party|Democrats]]. In 1966, having resided for nearly six years in Lafayette, Lyons entered the first of his two political races as a candidate. He challenged the reelection of the nine-term Democratic]] [[U.S. Representative]] Edwin Edward Willis (1904-1972) of St. Martinville Louisiana's 3rd congressional district seat, now held by the Republican [[Clay Higgins]]. Willis had first defeated two fellow Democrats in the 1966 party primary, State Representative Richard Guidry of Lafourche Parish and state Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc of Vermilion Parish, who had made a fortune in the patent medicine called Hadacol.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1592776/|title=Everyone gets into state politics|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=August 12, 1966|location=[[Lake Charles]], [[Louisiana]]|page=15|accessdate=September 11, 2014}}</ref>
Willis' defeat of Lyons marked the veteran lawmaker's last victory at the polls, He was unseated in the 1968 Democratic [[primary]] election by Patrick Thomson Caffery, Sr. (1932-2013), who retained the seat for two terms before retiring to return to his law practice in New Iberia, Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000017|title=Caffery, Patrick Thomson (1932-2013)|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref> Charlton Lyons had waged a campaign in December 1961 for Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat against the incoming Democrat [[Joe Waggonner]] of Bossier Parish, who won the right to succeed Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961) of Shreveport, who had died in office three months earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1417765/|title=GOP Challenge Turned Back by Waggonner|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=December 20, 1961|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
Willis' defeat of Lyons marked the veteran lawmaker's last victory at the polls, He was unseated in the 1968 Democratic [[primary]] election by Patrick Thomson Caffery, Sr. (1932-2013), who retained the seat for two terms before retiring to return to his law practice in New Iberia, Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000017|title=Caffery, Patrick Thomson (1932-2013)|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref> Charlton Lyons had waged a campaign in December 1961 for Louisiana's 4th congressional district seat against the incoming Democrat [[Joe Waggonner]] of Bossier Parish, who won the right to succeed Thomas Overton Brooks (1897-1961) of Shreveport, who had died in office three months earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1417765/|title=GOP Challenge Turned Back by Waggonner|publisher=''Lake Charles American Press''|date=December 20, 1961|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
Running with Lyons in the same Third Congressional District in 1966 was [[Charles and Virginia de Gravelles|Charles de Gravelles]], an oil landman from Lafayette and the successor of Charlton Lyons as state Republican chairman. DeGravelles failed to unseat Harvey Peltier, Sr. (1899-1977), in a race for the since reconfigured Louisiana State Board of Education, now the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.<ref>State of Louisiana: Secretary of State, ''Election Returns, 1965-1966'', p. 28.</ref>
Running with Lyons in the same Third Congressional District in 1966 was [[Charles and Virginia de Gravelles|Charles de Gravelles]], an oil landman from Lafayette and the successor to Charlton Lyons as state Republican chairman. DeGravelles failed to unseat Harvey Peltier, Sr. (1899-1977), in a race for the since reconfigured Louisiana State Board of Education, now the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.<ref>State of Louisiana: Secretary of State, ''Election Returns, 1965-1966'', p. 28.</ref>
===American Independent Party===
===American Independent Party===