John E. Lyle

John E. Lyle

John Emmett Lyle Jr. (born September 4, 1910 in Boyd , Wise County , Texas , †  November 11, 2003 in Houston , Texas) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1955 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Lyle attended Wichita Falls High School and then the junior college in Wichita Falls . He then studied at the University of Texas at Austin . After studying law at Houston Law School and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1941 and 1944 he was an MP in the Texas House of Representatives . Since he served in the US Army during the Second World War until 1944served, he can only have exercised this mandate very sporadically. During the war he was deployed on the European theater of war.

In the 1944 congressional election , Lyle was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 14th  constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Richard M. Kleberg on January 3, 1945 . After four re-elections he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1955 . During this time the end of the Second World War, the beginning of the Cold War and the Korean War fell . Domestically, the civil rights movement began .

In 1954, John Lyle declined to run again. During the presidencies of John F. Kennedy , Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan , he was a member of various commissions appointed by the respective presidents. In 1994 he became a member of a federal commission that dealt with the problems of aging. He died on November 11, 2003 in Houston and was buried in Austin.

Web links

• John E. Lyle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John E. Lyle in the database of Find a Grave (English)