Lyons also recruited congressional candidates in 1964: [[David C. Treen]] in a second race against [[Hale Boggs]]; [[William Stewart Walker]] of Winnfield, in a challenge to [[Speedy Long]] in the since defunct 8th district; [[Robert Angers]] of Lafayette, who opposed [[Edwin Willis]] of St. Martinville in the 3rd district, and Floyd O. Crawford of Baton Rouge, making a race against incumbent [[James H. Morrison|James Hobson Morrison, Sr.]] While Goldwater defeated Johnson in Louisiana with margins as high as 5–1, particularly in the northern tier, none of the congressional candidates fared better than Walker's 46 percent showing against Speedy Long.
[[File:Charlton Lyons of LA in his early years|200px|right|thumb|Lyons in his younger years]]
==Lyons opposes Joe Waggonner for Congress, 1961==
Three years before his gubernatorial campaign, Lyons ran in a special election for the 4th congressional district seat based in the northwestern quadrant of the state. A vacancy developed with the death of long-term Democratic Representative [[Thomas Overton Brooks]] (1897-1961) of Shreveport.<ref>In the 1960 general election, Brooks had defeated Republican [[Fred C. McClanahan]] of Shreveport, a businessman and a decorated veteran of [[World War II]], by a wide margin, 48,286 (74.2 percent) to 16,827 (25.8 percent). In 1956, Brooks had defeated then Republican [[Calhoun Allen]], later a Democratic [[mayor]] of Shreveport.</ref>