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James Lyons Jr.

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Born: October 12, 1801

Birthplace: Hanover County, Virginia

Father: James Lyons Sr.

Mother: Sarah Spotswood Waugh Unknown – 1835

1st​ Wife: Henningham Henrietta Watkins 1799 – 1851
(Buried: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

2nd​ Wife: Imogen Byrd Penn 1834 – 1901
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​

Children:

Josephine Lyons Standard 1822 – 1889​
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
James Lyons III 1826 – 1840​
(Buried: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
Heningham Watkins Lyons Scott 1827 – 1886​
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
Sarah Nivison "Sally" Lyons Taliaferro 1828 – 1899​
(Buried: Ware Episcopal Church, Gloucester, Virginia)​
John A. Lyons 1830 – 1830​
(Buried: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
William Henry Lyons 1831 – 1867​
(Buried: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
Edward C. Lyons 1835 – 1853​
(Buried: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
Dr. Peter Lyons 1838 – 1881​
(Buried: Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia)​
Mary Powers Lyon Hutter 1840 – 1900​
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia)​

Political Party: Whig Party and Democratic Party


Education:

1819: Graduated from College of William and Mary​

Occupation before War:

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Attorney in Richmond, Virginia​
District Attorney in Richmond, Virginia for ten years​
Went to New York to arrange Lafayette's visit to Virginia​
Helped develop Richmond as a railroad terminal​
1840: Author of Whig Address known as "The Gray Book"​
Virginia State Senator and Member of Virginia House Delegates​
1850: Member of Virginia State Constitutional Convention​
1850: Virginia Delegate to Nashville Convention​
1852: Joined the Democratic Political Party​
1856: Started advising secession if a Republican President elected.​
1859: President of local Southern Rights Association​

Civil War Career:

1861: Ran third in a contest for Confederate States Congressman​
1862: Elected to Confederate Congress after John Tyler died.​
1862 – 1864: Confederate States Congressman from Virginia​
1862 – 1864: Member of House Commerce Committee​
1862 – 1864: Chairman of House Public Buildings Committee​
1862: Chairman House Joint Buildings Committee​
1862: Chairman House Joint Inauguration Committee​
Known to have been a close friend to President Jefferson Davis​
Support the most demanding legislation on army and finance​
He resented concessions to local interests.​
Introduced several bills giving President Davis and his generals emergency powers in appointments, impressment, and habeas corpus suspension.​
1862: Proposed to respond to the Emancipation Proclamation by ordering officers to take no prisoners to reward negroes for killing enemy soldiers.​
The House choose widely when it delegated him to ask the President to explain his ideas on peace, but Davis still declined.​
1863: Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to Confederate Congress.​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1882: Attorney in Richmond, Virginia​
1867: Signer of President Jefferson Davis's bond and was defense counsel at the trial.​
1872: Chairman of the convention of Straight – out Democrats​

Died:
December 18, 1882

Place of Death: Richmond, Virginia

Age at time of Death: 81 years old

Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
 
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Actually ex-pres. John Tyler didn't get to serve any of his term,he was representative-elect from Virginia and passed away on January 18, 1862 before the Confederate Congress started.Lyons was elected on Febuary 10, 1862 in a special election to take his place.
 
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