Francis Strother Lyon
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Francis Strother Lyon (February 25, 1800 – December 31, 1882) was a prominent Alabama politician.
Lyon was born in Stokes County, North Carolina. He moved to Alabama in 1817 and was admitted to the bar in 1821. Lyon was secretary of the state senate from 1822 to 1830, and then served in the Alabama state Senate from 1833 to 1834. He represented Alabama's Fifth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839. From 1845 to 1853, Lyon served as a commissioner in charge of administering the bankrupt state banking system. He served in the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1861.
Lyon represented Alabama in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.
He was elected as a delegate to the 1875 Alabama constitutional convention and was elected to the state senate again in 1876.
