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Matthew
Lyon (1749-1822)
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Birthplace
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near Dublin, Ireland |
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Occupation
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Printer,
laborer, businessman |
Congressional
Service
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House
1797-1801
(R-Vt.)
House 1803-1811
(R-Ky.) |
Newspapers
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Rutland
Farmer’s Library/Fair Haven
Gazette, 1793-98 (R) |
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Federal
appointments
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U.S. Factor
to Cherokees, Ark. Territory, 1820 |
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Other
offices
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Clerk
of the Vermont Court of Confiscation, ca. 1785 |
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Member,
Vermont House of Representatives, 1779-82 & ten times in the
period 1783-96 |
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Unsuccessful
candidate for Congress in 1790, 1792, and 1794 |
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Notes
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Came
to America as a redemptioner in 1765 |
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Revolutionary
veteran: participant in 1775 Canadian invasion and member of the
"Green Mountain Boys" |
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Subject
of two impeachment attempts while holding state office in Vermont,
one successful,
one not |
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Father
of James Lyon, the most prolific of all partisan newspaper
founders, and Chittenden
Lyon, multi-term Kentucky congressman |
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Assaulted
by Rep. Roger Griswold (F-Conn.) on floor of House, 15 Feb. 1798,
memorialized in an
early political cartoon, "Congressional Pugilists" |
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Sedition
Act victim |
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Invoked
by Vermont Sen. James Jeffords in announcing his 2001 party
switch |
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