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Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)

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Governor
  
Daniel H. Hastings

Name
  
Walter Lyon

Succeeded by
  
John P. S. Gobin

Religion
  
Presbyterian

Party
  
Republican Party

Political party
  
Republican

Died
  
1933

Preceded by
  
Louis Arthur Watres

Role
  
Polit.


Walter Lyon (Pennsylvania)

Walter Lyon (April 27, 1853 – March 21, 1933) was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican from 1895 to 1899.

He was born in Shaler Township, Pennsylvania. He was educated at the Wakeam Academy and was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1876. In 1889, he was appointed as United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He resigned from this position in 1893 to run for Pennsylvania State Senate; he served in this body for one term until his election as Lieutenant Governor. After leaving politics, he founded the Pittsburgh law firm of Lyon, Hunter & Burke. He later retired to Sewickley, Pennsylvania.

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