William C. Lyon

William Cotter Lyon


Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office January 9, 1888 – January 13, 1890
Preceded by	Silas A. Conrad
Succeeded by	Elbert L. Lampson
Personal details
Born	(1841-07-04)July 4, 1841 Homer, Ohio
Died	September 24, 1908(1908-09-24) (aged 67) Ohio
Resting place	Woodland Cemetery, Xenia, Ohio

William Cotter Lyon^[1] (July 7, 1841 – September 24, 1908) was an American Republican politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1888 to 1890 under Governor Joseph B. Foraker.^[2]

Lyon was born July, 1841 at Homer, Medina County, Ohio. His mother died in Michigan in 1847, and his father was murdered in Putnam County, Ohio in 1853.^[3] He was left at age twelve to care for himself and his younger orphan siblings. He learned the shoemaker's trade, educated himself and sometimes attended the Seville Academy.^[3] At outbreak of the Insurrection, he enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment. He served two years as a private before being made a commissioned officer.^[3] Thirteen months before the end of the war, he was captured and imprisoned in a POW camp. After release he was made a captain. After the war he returned to the shoe business in Medina County, and moved to Newark, Licking County in 1870. In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Postmaster of that city, and he was re-appointed by President Chester A. Arthur. He resigned with the election of Grover Cleveland, but it was not accepted until January 1, 1886.^[3] In 1884, he purchased the Newark American. In 1887 he was nominated and elected Ohio Lieutenant Governor.^[4] He was not re-nominated in 1889. He died in 1908.^[5]^[6]

Notes

↑ The News Herald (Hillsboro, Ohio) September 29, 1887 page 1
↑ "Lieutenant Governors Of The State Of Ohio: 1852 - Present". Ohio Secretary of State. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
1 2 3 4 Smith 1898 : 544
↑ 1887 election Lyon 356,932 Democrat De Witt C. Coolman 328,189 from Smith 1898 : 541
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References

Smith, Joseph P, ed. (1898). History of the Republican Party in Ohio. I. Chicago: the Lewis Publishing Company.

Political offices
Preceded by Silas A. Conrad	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1888-1890	Succeeded by Elbert L. Lampson

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Ohio

Governors	Tiffin Kirker Huntington Meigs Looker Worthington E. Brown Trimble Morrow Trimble McArthur Lucas Vance Shannon Corwin Shannon T. Bartley M. Bartley Bebb Ford Wood Medill Chase Dennison Tod Brough Anderson J. D. Cox Hayes Noyes Allen Hayes Young Bishop Foster Hoadly Foraker Campbell McKinley Bushnell Nash Herrick Pattison Harris Harmon J. M. Cox Willis J. M. Cox Davis Donahey Cooper White Davey Bricker Lausche Herbert Lausche J. Brown O'Neill DiSalle Rhodes Gilligan Rhodes Celeste Voinovich Hollister Taft Strickland Kasich

Lieutenant Governors	Medill Myers Ford Welker Kirk Stanton Anderson McBurney Lee Mueller Hart Young Curtiss Fitch Hickenlooper Richards Warwick Kennedy Conrad Lyon Lampson Marquis Harris Jones Caldwell Nippert Gordon Harding Harris Treadway Pomerene Nichols Greenlund Arnold Bloom C. Brown Bloom Lewis Bloom Pickrel Braden J. T. Brown Pickrel Sawyer Mosier Yoder Herbert Nye Herbert Nye J. W. Brown Herbert Donahey J. W. Brown Celeste Voinovich Shoemaker Leonard DeWine Hollister O'Connor Bradley Johnson Fisher Taylor

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