Charles W. Lyon

CA Blue Book

Date	Party	Office	Votes	Result
11-03-1914	Republican	AD-62	6895	Win
11-07-1916	Republican	AD-62	10221	Win
11-05-1918	Republican	SD-34	16818	Win
11-07-1922	Republican	SD-34	38430	Win
11-02-1926	Republican	SD-34	69965	Win
11-08-1932	Republican	AD-59	23513	Win
11-06-1934	Republican	AD-59	30640	Win
11-03-1936	Republican	AD-59	33181	Win
11-08-1938	Republican	AD-59	33715	Win
11-05-1940	Republican	AD-59	45325	Win
11-03-1942	Republican	AD-59	27864	Win
11-07-1944	Republican	AD-59	35757	Win
11-07-1950	Republican	AD-59	28224	Win
11-04-1952	Republican	AD-59	45480	Win
11-02-1954	Republican	AD-59	8876	Loss

Candidate Biography:

Born: September 13, 1887 in Los Angeles, CA
Married: Nancy P. Janney (in 1912)
Children: Nancy J. Locke, Charles W. Jr, and Frank Gilbert
Died: July 20, 1960

1914: City Attorney, City of Venice
1939: Minority Leader, California State Assembly
1943-1946: Speaker, California State Assembly

• LEGAL TROUBLES: Lyon was convicted in October 1954 of selling of state liquor licenses (with G. Delbert Morris) and spent two years in prison. Lyon refused to resign from the Assembly and collected $1,500 in salary for the three months between his conviction and the end of his final term.
• PARDON ME: Lyon was paroled in November 1956 and pardoned by Governor Goodwin Knight in 1958.
• In 1938, Lyon (as a cross-filing candidate) defeated Robert A. Heinlein for the Democratic nomination for AD-59. As the only winning candidate in Primary, Lyon was unopposed in the General Election. Heinlein went on to become a prolific science fiction author, writing 32 novels, 59 short stories and 16 collections (including Starship Troopers in 1959).

Source: California Blue Book (1928), (1946), (1954)
Source: Political Graveyard (website).
Source: "1905 Decisions Could Bear in Robbins' Case: by David Lawsky (UPI), Los Angeles Times (3/22/1981)