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Only person in Louisiana to serve as mayor of two different cities, Houma and Mandeville)
Only person in Louisiana to serve as mayor of two different cities, Houma and Mandeville)
|birth_date=June 16, 1929
|birth_date=June 16, 1929
|birth_place=Houma, Terrebonne Parish, [[Louisiana]]
|birth_place=Houma, [[Terrebonne Parish]], [[Louisiana]]
|spouse=Joan Ortego Lyons (died 2014)<br>
|spouse=Joan Ortego Lyons (died 2014)<br>
Children:<br>
Children:<br>
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]}}
'''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 [[suburb]]an St. Tammany Parish outside [[New Orleans]]. He is thus far the only person to have served as the mayor of two Louisiana cities.
'''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 [[suburb]]an 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.<ref> Cindy Chang, [http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2009/10/post_24.html "Mandeville mayor resigns under fire"] in ''Times-Picayune'', 2009 October 10, pp. A1, A11; [http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2009/10/a_disgraced_mayor_finally_resi.html "Mayor Price's resignation"] in ''Times-Picayune'', 2009 October 10, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4; Cindy Chang, [http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1255324868262670.xml&coll=1 "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.</ref>
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.<ref> Cindy Chang, [http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2009/10/post_24.html "Mandeville mayor resigns under fire"] in ''Times-Picayune'', 2009 October 10, pp. A1, A11; [http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2009/10/a_disgraced_mayor_finally_resi.html "Mayor Price's resignation"] in ''Times-Picayune'', 2009 October 10, Saint Tammany Edition, p. B4; Cindy Chang, [http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-34/1255324868262670.xml&coll=1 "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.</ref>
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.<ref>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.</ref>
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.<ref>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.</ref>
In 1988, the [[Democratic Party|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 Party|Republican]], [[Kernan "Skip" Hand]] in the [[general election]] for the PSC held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election.
In 1988, the [[Democratic Party|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 Party|Republican]], [[Kernan "Skip" Hand]] in the [[general election]] for the PSC held in conjunction with the U.S. presidential election.