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'''Hall McCord Lyons''' (December 22, 1923 – July 22, 1998) was an [[oil]]man who worked during the 1960s to establish a competitive [[Republican Party]] in his native [[Louisiana]]. However, in 1968, Lyons left the Louisiana GOP and joined the American Independent Party, through which he waged in 1972 an unsuccessful campaign for the [[United States Senate]]. Lyons's father, [[Charlton Lyons]], had been the Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee in 1964 and then the state party chairman from 1964 to 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyons-lytle.html#784.74.27|title=Lyons to Lyversa: Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., and Hall McCord Lyons|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=April 7, 2019}}</ref>
'''Hall McCord Lyons''' (December 22, 1923 – July 22, 1998) was an [[oil]]man who worked during the 1960s to establish a competitive [[Republican Party]] in his native [[Louisiana]]. However, in 1968, Lyons left the Louisiana GOP and joined the American Independent Party, through which he waged in 1972 an unsuccessful campaign for the [[United States Senate]]. Lyons's father, [[Charlton Lyons]], had been the Republican [[governor|gubernatorial]] nominee in 1964 and then the state party chairman from 1964 to 1968.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyons-lytle.html#784.74.27|title=Lyons to Lyversa: Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., and Hall McCord Lyons|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=April 7, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
Born in [[Shreveport]], where his parents had relocated in 1921, Lyons was given his mother's maiden surname as a first name and his great-aunt's married name as a middle name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=McCord&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=17170082&df=all&|title=Dot Hall McCord|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 17, 2014}}</ref>
Born in [[Shreveport]], where his parents had relocated in 1921, Lyons was given his mother's maiden surname as a first name and his great-aunt's married name as a middle name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=McCord&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=20&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=17170082&df=all&|title=Dot Hall McCord|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 17, 2014}}</ref>
==Education, military, and oil industry===
===Education and military===
Young Lyons was educated in Shreveport at the public South Highlands Elementary School and the private Southfield School with instruction through the eighth grade. He graduated from the college preparatory Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville in Mercer County in central [[New Jersey]]. After enlistment in the United States Naval Reserve, Lyons studied at Centenary College in Shreveport, where the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse is named for his mother, and then [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=lyonsfamily/>
Young Lyons was educated in Shreveport at the public South Highlands Elementary School and the private Southfield School with instruction through the eighth grade. He graduated from the college preparatory Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in Lawrenceville in Mercer County in central [[New Jersey]]. After enlistment in the United States Naval Reserve, Lyons studied at Centenary College in Shreveport, where the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse is named for his mother, and then [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=lyonsfamily/>
Lyons received his commission as an ensign in the [[United States Navy]] through the Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, [[Illinois]]. Lyons was then assigned to duty at the Leyte Gulf in the [[Philippines]]. While headed to Leyte, his plane developed engine trouble and was compelled to land at Peleliu Island. The noted newspaperman Ernie Pyle was aboard the altered flight. Upon reaching Leyte, the small ship to which Lyons had been assigned had already departed for the [[Battle of Okinawa|invasion of Okinawa]] off the [[Japan]]ese coast. He finally reached [[Okinawa Island]], where he remained for eighteen months. At the end of the war, Lyons was in command of the ship called ''USS Landing Craft Tank 1326''. While in Okinawa, he found relief from military duties to plan a duck hunt, the story of which was carried on June 1, 1946, in the sporting-dog magazine, ''American Field''.<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/hall-mccord-lyons/|title=Hall McCord Lyons|date=November 20, 2007|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
Lyons received his commission as an ensign in the [[United States Navy]] through the Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, [[Illinois]]. Lyons was then assigned to duty at the Leyte Gulf in the [[Philippines]]. While headed to Leyte, his plane developed engine trouble and was compelled to land at Peleliu Island. The noted newspaperman Ernie Pyle was aboard the altered flight. Upon reaching Leyte, the small ship to which Lyons had been assigned had already departed for the [[Battle of Okinawa|invasion of Okinawa]] off the [[Japan]]ese coast. He finally reached [[Okinawa Island]], where he remained for eighteen months. At the end of the war, Lyons was in command of the ship called ''USS Landing Craft Tank 1326''. While in Okinawa, he found relief from military duties to plan a duck hunt, the story of which was carried on June 1, 1946, in the sporting-dog magazine, ''American Field''.<ref name=lyonsfamily>{{cite web|url=http://lyonsfamilytree.com/2007/11/20/hall-mccord-lyons/|title=Hall McCord Lyons|date=November 20, 2007|publisher=WordPress|accessdate=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
===Oil industry===
After the war, Lyons completed his studies at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from which in 1949 he received a degree in arts and sciences. After the war, Lyons lived for several years in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], where he was employed in the petroleum business with his father and a cousin, Newton Hall McCord (born in 1915 in [[New Orleans]]), who later settled in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. Lyons returned to Shreveport to become a partner in his family-owned C. H. Lyons Petroleum Company, formerly known as the Lyons, McCord & Logan company.<ref name=lyonsfamily/> When he lived in Shreveport, Lyons was, like his mother, active in the musical community there. A former president of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1948, Lyons often sang in [[opera]] presentations.<ref name=obit>Hall M. Lyons obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', July 26, 1998.</ref>
After the war, Lyons completed his studies at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], from which in 1949 he received a degree in arts and sciences. After the war, Lyons lived for several years in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], where he was employed in the petroleum business with his father and a cousin, Newton Hall McCord (born in 1915 in [[New Orleans]]), who later settled in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]], Texas. Lyons returned to Shreveport to become a partner in his family-owned C. H. Lyons Petroleum Company, formerly known as the Lyons, McCord & Logan company.<ref name=lyonsfamily/> When he lived in Shreveport, Lyons was, like his mother, active in the musical community there. A former president of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, which was founded in 1948, Lyons often sang in [[opera]] presentations.<ref name=obit>Hall M. Lyons obituary, ''The Shreveport Times'', July 26, 1998.</ref>