{{short description|American politician}} {{Other people|Bob Lyon|Robert Lyon (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Bob Lyon | order1 = Member of the Kansas State Senate from the 3rd District | term_start1 = 2001 | term_end1 = 2004 | predecessor1 = Donald Biggs | successor1 = Roger Pine | image = Senator Bob Lyon of Kansas.jpg | image_size = 200px | birth_date = March 24, 1955<ref name="kslib">{{cite web |url=https://kslib.info/BusinessDirectoryii.aspx?ysnShowAll=0&lngNewPage=0&txtLetter=&txtZipCode=&txtCity=&txtState=&txtBusinessName=Lyon%2C+Bob&lngBusinessCategoryID=0&txtCustomField1=&txtCustomField2=&txtCustomField3=&txtCustomField4=&txtAreaCode= |title=Kansas Legislators, Past and Present - Lyon, Bob |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=kslib.info |publisher=State Library of Kansas |access-date=October 31, 2022}}</ref> | birth_place = Oak Park, Illinois | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | spouse = Rita Lyon | children = 3 daughters | alma_mater = University of Virginia, George Washington University }} '''Bob Lyon''' (born March 24, 1955), an American politician, is a former Kansas State Senator from the city of Winchester. A civil engineer, Lyon is a graduate of the University of Virginia and George Washington University.<ref name=Republicans>[http://www.kssenategop.org/senators/lyon.shtml Kansas Senate Republicans] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808050719/http://www.kssenategop.org/senators/lyon.shtml |date=2007-08-08 }}, Kansas Republican Party, 2004. Accessed 2007-08-20.</ref>
A Republican, Lyon was elected to the Third District seat of the Kansas Senate in 2000.<ref name=Republicans /> He defeated two Leavenworth residents to win the Republican nomination,<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20000731/ai_n11752709 Loads of candidates grace area ballots], ''The Topeka Capital-Journal'', 2000-07-31. Accessed 2008-08-31.</ref> and he beat Democratic nominee Mike Gibbens by somewhat more than 1,500 votes in the general election.<ref>[http://www.kssos.org/elections/elmpast/2kgwin1.html 2000 Kansas Official General Election Results], Secretary of State of Kansas, 2000. Accessed 2008-08-31.</ref> In his term in the Senate, he served on four committees:<ref name=Republicans /> *Federal and State Affairs (of which he was the vice chairman) *Joint Legislative Educational Planning *Transportation *Utilities He served a single four-year term, declining to run for reelection and being succeeded by Roger Pine in 2005.<ref>[http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/searchSenate.do?rep=2357 Kansas Senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824050525/http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-senate/searchSenate.do?rep=2357 |date=2007-08-24 }}, Kansas Senate, 2007. Accessed 2007-08-20.</ref>
With his wife Rita, Lyon has three daughters. He is an elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America,<ref name=Republicans /> serving on the session of the denomination's Winchester congregation.<ref>''Minutes of the Synod and Yearbook of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America 2007''. Pittsburgh: Crown & Covenant, 2008, p. 189.</ref>
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