John E. Lyle, Jr.

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John Emmett Lyle, Jr. (September 4, 1910 - November 11, 2003) was a U.S. Representative from Texas.

Born in Boyd, Texas, Lyle graduated from Wichita Falls High School, Wichita Falls, Texas. He attended the Junior College at Wichita Falls, the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, and the Houston Law School, Houston, Texas. He was a lawyer in private practice. He served as member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1941 to 1944. He was in the United States Army from 1942 to 1944.

Lyle was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1955). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress. He was appointed to the Federal Council on Aging, 1994. He died on November 11, 2003, in Houston, Texas. He was interred in Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Texas.

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• John E. Lyle, Jr. at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

[edit] External links

• John E. Lyle, Jr. at Find A Grave