Life Away From Vermont
Lyon moved to Kentucky in 1801 and settled in Caldwell County (now Lyon County). He became a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1802 and was elected to the Eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1811). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1810 to the Twelfth Congress.
Lyon was appointed United States factor to the Cherokee Nation in Arkansas Territory in 1820; and again attempted to serve in Washington, D.C. when he unsuccessfully contested the election of James W. Bates as a delegate from the Arkansas Territory to the Seventeenth Congress. Lyon died in Spadra Bluff, Arkansas, August 1, 1822, and was initially interred in Spadra Bluff Cemetery; he was reinterred in Eddyville Cemetery, Eddyville, Caldwell County (now Lyon County), Kentucky, in 1833.
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