Thomas "Tom" Fredrick Lawrence Lysons (November 20,1934 –May 7,1997) was a former provincial level politician from Alberta,Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1986.
Lysons ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1975 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Vermilion-Viking winning a hotly contested race to pick up the district for the governing Progressive Conservative party. [2] He ran for a second term in office in the 1979 Alberta general election this time winning easily after significantly increasing his popular vote. [3] Lysons would win his highest popular vote running for his final term in office in the 1982 Alberta general election. [4] He retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1986.
Lysons died in 1997. [5]
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