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LeRoy E. Lyon Jr.

Republican

Date Party Office Votes Result
11-04-1952 Republican AD-75 40353 Win
11-02-1954 Republican AD-75 25641 Win
Website: www.findagrave.com/memorial/153293377/leroy_edward-lyon
 

Candidate Biography:

LeRoy Edward Lyon, Jr.
Born: December 4, 1920 in Anaheim, CA
Married: Martha Jane Seymour (m. 1944)
Children: LeRoy E. III, Sylvia Jane, and Janet Lee
Family: Son of LeRoy E. Lyon (Orange County Supervisor 1933-1937)
Military Service: USN (WWII, Korea)
University: University of Southern California (BA, 1942; JD, 1949)
Died: July 17, 2005 in Granite Bay, CA

1950-1952: Research Officer, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy (U.N. Senior Delegate to the Truce Talks)
1952: Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, California State Assembly*
1955: Resigned from the State Assembly on June 30.

 

  • Was hired as an Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms for a special session AFTER he had won the Assembly primary in 1952. (Oral History, p. 52)

 

Source: California Blue Book (1954)
Source: https://archive.org/details/oh89-10-lyon/page/n63/mode/2up?view=theater