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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==
==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>