13 Facts About Tom Yon

Thomas Alva Yon was an American politician and businessman who served three terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Florida from 1927 to 1933.

Thomas Alva Yon was born to Higdon Almarin Yon and Laura D Lockey near Blountstown, Florida on March 14,1882.

Tom Yon attended rural schools and graduated from Lanier Southern Business College in Macon, Georgia in 1903.

Tom Yon returned to Blountstown in 1903 and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1906.

Tom Yon engaged as a traveling salesman in Tallahassee, Florida from 1906 to 1927.

Tom Yon served as delegate to the 1920 Democratic National Convention.

Tom Yon was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in the 1926 elections, and was twice re-elected, serving from March 4,1927 to March 4,1933, in the 70th, 71st, and 72nd Congresses.

Tom Yon was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.

Tom Yon was a supporter of the building of Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Tom Yon served as a special and commercial agent in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, DC from 1933 to 1940.

Tom Yon served as assistant investigator in the Division of Investigation of the General Accounting Office from 1941 until his retirement in January 1946.

Tom Yon engaged in development and sale of his Florida real estate holdings after retirement.

On February 16,1971 Tom Yon died in Tallahassee, Florida in 1971, and was interred in Oakland Cemetery.