Hall McCord Lyons (December 22, 1923 – July 22, 1998) was a petroleum industry executive who worked during the 1960s to establish a competitive Republican Party (GOP) in his native U.S. state of Louisiana, which was long-dominated by the Democratic Party. However, in 1968, Lyons left the Louisiana GOP to join the American Independent Party, through which as the American Party, he waged in 1972 an unsuccessful campaign for the United States Senate. Lyons's father, Charlton Lyons, had been the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1964 and the state party chairman from 1964 to 1968.
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22 July 1923 Shreveport, Louisiana
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Died |
22 July 1998 (aged 75) Louisiana
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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