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Edward Paul "Bubby" Lyons (born June 16, 1929, in Houma, Louisiana) was chosen by the city council of Mandeville, Louisiana, on October 17, 2009, to serve for five months as interim mayor. [1]
Houma is the largest city in the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States and the largest principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's powers of government have been absorbed by the parish, which is now run by the Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government. The population was 33,727 at the 2010 census, an increase of 1,334 over the 2000 tabulation of 32,393.
Louisiana is a state in the Deep South region of the South Central United States. It is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Louisiana is bordered by the state of Texas to the west, Arkansas to the north, Mississippi to the east, and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. A large part of its eastern boundary is demarcated by the Mississippi River. Louisiana is the only U.S. state with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are equivalent to counties. The state's capital is Baton Rouge, and its largest city is New Orleans.
A city council, town council, town board, or board of aldermen is the legislative body that governs a city, town, municipality, or local government area.
Lyons has formerly held several public offices including mayor of Houma, president of Terrebonne Parish, and member of the former Terrebonne Parish police jury. After retiring to Mandeville, he served for five months on the Mandeville City Council in 2000 to complete the unexpired term of Homer Fouquier after Jack McGuire did not seek reelection. Lyons, in applying to be interim mayor, agreed not to be a candidate in the 2010 March 27 special election to select a mayor to complete the term to which Price had been elected and which ended in 2012. [2]
Terrebonne Parish is a parish located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,860. The parish seat is Houma. The parish was founded in 1822.
In the U.S. state of Louisiana, the typical governing body of the parish is called the Police Jury. Not every parish is governed by a Police Jury, but 40 of the 64 parishes use this system.
In 1988, the Democrat Lyons polled 16 percent of the votes cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary for the District 2 seat on the Louisiana Public Service Commission. Victory went instead to another Democrat, later lieutenant governor and then Governor Kathleen Blanco, who defeated a Republican, Kernan "Skip" Hand in the general election for the position held in conjunction with the 1988 U.S. presidential contest.
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its heritage back to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, the modern-day Democratic Party was founded around 1828 by supporters of Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.
A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office, regardless of respective political party, run against each other at once, instead of being segregated by political party. It is also known as a jungle primary, or qualifying primary. In most cases there are two winners who advance to the general election, which must be a normal first-past-the-post election, in this case it is called a top-two primary.
Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) is an independent regulatory agency which manages public utilities and motor carriers in Louisiana. The commission has five elected members chosen in single-member districts for staggered six-year terms. Thus the commissioners have large constituencies, long terms, and close involvement with issues of intense consumer interest ; consequently membership on PSC has been known to serve as a springboard to even higher public office, as in the cases of Huey Long, Jimmie Davis, John McKeithen, and Kathleen Babineaux Blanco —PSC members who became governors of Louisiana.
Lyons is retired from Duplantis Truck Lines, Quality Shipyards, and Benton Casing Services, all companies in Houma of which he was a part-owner. He has served on the boards of Terrebonne General Hospital, Terrebonne Parish Library, Louisiana Energy Power Authority, Florida Parishes Retirement District, and Saint Tammany Parish Events District. Lyons was married to Joan Ortego Lyons (1932-2014) Their children are Edward, Jr., Thomas L. "Tommy", Jeff, Lesley, and Ben. [3] Growing up in originally francophone Houma, Lyons was the first member of his family to have English as a native language. [4]
Lyons is known for his dancing, singing, and storytelling abilities. Often, when given a mere word or topic, Bubby Lyons can immediately recall a story from the 1940s in vivid detail.
Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are shared as a means of entertainment, education, cultural preservation or instilling moral values. Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters and narrative point of view.
On February 1, 2014, Lyons was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield because he is thus far the only person to have served as mayor of two different Louisiana cities, Houma and Mandeville. Seven others, all Democrats, were also honored. [5]
The Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in located in Winnfield, Winn Parish, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was created in 1987 by an act of the Louisiana State Legislature to highlight the careers of the state's leading politicians and political journalists. Because three governors, Huey P. Long Jr., Oscar K. Allen, and Earl Kemp Long, were born there Winnfield calls itself "the birthplace of Louisiana politics." The museum, which opened in August 1993 on the centennial of Huey Long's birth, is located at 499 East Main Street in a restored Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad depot. Until his death in 2011, each inductee was sketched by the former Shreveport Times cartoonist Preston Allen "Pap" Dean Jr., himself one of the original thirteen honorees.
Winnfield is a small city in the parish seat of Winn Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,749 at the 2000 census, and 4,840 in 2010. Three governors of the state of Louisiana were from Winnfield.
