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| birth_place=[[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], USA

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[[~~San Antonio, Texas|~~San Antonio]], [[Texas]]

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[[San Antonio]], [[Texas]]

Shreveport, Louisiana

[[Lafayette]], Louisiana

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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/>

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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 [[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>

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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>

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>

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In 1960, Lyons relocated to [[Lafayette]], Louisiana, to become an independent oil producer.<ref name=lyonsfamily/> He also operated at least two wells in Pointe Coupee Parish in south Louisiana,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drillingedge.com/louisiana/pointe-coupee-parish/leases/glaser-et-al/102316-3|title=Glaser et al, Lease #102316-3|publisher=drillingedge.com|accessdate=August 20, 2014}}</ref> the second from January 1977 to October 1978.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drillingedge.com/louisiana/pointe-coupee-parish/leases/lottie-land-development-co/029138-1|title=Lottie Land & Development Co,. Lease #029138-1|publisher=drillingedge.com|accessdate=August 20, 2014}}</ref> In 1985, Lyons was listed as president of Golden Eagle Mining, Inc., in Lafayette, a company since inactive.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizapedia.com/people/LOUISIANA/LAFAYETTE/HALL-LYONS.html|title=Hall Lyons in Lafayette, Louisiana|publisher=bizapedia.com|accessdate=August 24, 2014}}</ref>

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==Political life==

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==Political life==

===Republican House campaign, 1966===

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Running with Lyons in the same Third Congressional District in 1966 was [[Charles and Virginia deGravelles|Charles deGravelles]], 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>

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===American Party===

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===American Independent Party===

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Unlike his father, who was a staunch supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] in all three presidential campaigns and helped to deliver critical delegates to Nixon at the 1968 [[Republican National Convention]], Hall Lyons grew disillusioned with the [[liberal]] influence within the national Republican Party and the large number of [[Moderate Republicans]] in positions of leadership..<ref>Hall Lyons was particularly critical of such [[Moderate Republican]]s as [[Hugh Scott]] of [[Pennsylvania]], who led the Republican minority in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1977 and was usually at odds with party conservatives. Senators [[Jacob Javits]] of [[New York]], [[Clifford Case]] of New Jersey, [[Edward Brooke]] of [[Massachusetts]], and [[Charles Mathias]] of [[Maryland]] and Governo [[Nelson A. Rockefeller]] of New York..</ref>

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Unlike his father, who was a staunch supporter of [[U.S. President]] [[Richard M. Nixon]] in all three presidential campaigns and helped to deliver critical delegates to Nixon at the 1968 [[Republican National Convention]], Hall Lyons grew disillusioned with the [[liberal]] influence within the national Republican Party and the large number of [[Moderate Republicans]] in positions of leadership..<ref>Hall Lyons was particularly critical of such [[Moderate Republican]]s as [[Hugh Scott]] of [[Pennsylvania]], who led the Republican minority in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1977 and was usually at odds with party conservatives. Senators [[Jacob Javits]] of [[New York]], [[Clifford Case]] of New Jersey, [[Edward Brooke]] of [[Massachusetts]], and [[Charles Mathias]] of [[Maryland]] and Governo [[Nelson Rockefeller]] of New York..</ref>

Lyons hence left his father's Republican Party to join the American Independent Party, an organization founded by Bill Shearer in [[California]] in 1967 and known for its nomination of [[George Wallace]], the former governor of [[Alabama]] at the time, as its presidential candidate in 1968 against Nixon and the Democratic nominee, [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Hubert Humphrey]]. Hall Lyons supported Wallace in 1968 and planned to run for governor himself in the Louisiana general election held on February 1, 1972. He faced the prospect of running on the American Party label without his father's support, as the elder Lyons was the finance chairman for Republican nominee [[David C. Treen]],<ref>"Charlton Lyons Is Named Treen Finance Chairman," ''Minden Press-Herald,'' July 13, 1971, p. 1.</ref> then of Jefferson Parish, where Hall Lyons subsequently spent his later years.<ref>[[Grover Rees]], ''Dave Treen of Louisiana'' (Baton Rouge: Moran Publishing Company, 1979), p. 47.</ref> Lyons cited "corruption in high places in Louisiana ... a cancer that must be cut out in an emergency operation."<ref>"Hall M. Lyons Is Candidate," ''Minden Press-Herald," November 11, 1971, p. 1.</ref> However, a few weeks before the election, Lyons abandoned his candidacy and endorsed Treen, in his words, "so the cause of conservative unity might best be served."<ref>''Shreveport Journal'', January 3, 1972, p. 1.</ref><ref>"Lyons Says Conservatives Should Unite With Treen", ''Minden Press-Herald'', January 4, 1972, p. 1.</ref> Treen went on to lose the general election that year to Democrat [[Edwin Edwards]], then the U.S. Representative for the since defunct 7th congressional district. Treen nevertheless later became the first Louisiana Republican since 1891 to hold a seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000619|title=Coleman, Hamilton Dudley|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov|accessdate=August 17, 2014}}</ref> Treen represented the same but revised Third District in which Lyons had run six years earlier against Edwin Willis.<ref>''New Orleans Times Picayune'', November 8, 1972, p. 1.</ref> In 1979, Treen was elected as his state's first Republican governor since 1877.<ref>Official election returns, December 1979", ''Baton Rouge State-Times,'' December 22, 1979, p. 16C.</ref>

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