William John Lyon was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
10 Facts About Jack Lyon
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Jack Lyon was killed in World War II while serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.
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Jack Lyon won a scholarship to the University of Oxford, but did not take it up as he enlisted in the British Army aged 17.
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Jack Lyon was promoted to a non-commissioned officer and later was an officer in the Royal Sussex Regiment and military intelligence.
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Jack Lyon joined the Labour Party in 1928 and was elected a member of the Hastings Borough Council and Napier Harbour Board in 1929 before moving to Auckland in 1931.
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Jack Lyon contested the Hawkes Bay electorate in the 1928 election, but was beaten by the incumbent, Hugh Campbell of the Reform Party.
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Jack Lyon twice moved in caucus that the Bank of New Zealand be nationalised, but was ignored by Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage who was opposed to the idea.
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Jack Lyon was later a member of a caucus committee tasked with drafting the party's social security policies which later became the Social Security Act 1938.
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Jack Lyon was so infuriated thar he ripped up the copy he was reading.
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Jack Lyon was survived by his wife and two daughters.