The Hudson and O'Hearn victories were attributed that year in part to the coattails of GOP gubernatorial nominee Charlton Lyons of Shreveport.
Charlton Lyons, Louisiana Republican state chairman from 1964 to 1968 and Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1964, was reared in Melville.
After winning an easy closed Democratic primary race, Waggonner faced a stronger-than-usual Republican challenger in Charlton Lyons, a Shreveport oilman originally from Vermilion Parish in south Louisiana.
Early in 1964, the deGravelles supported Charlton Havard Lyons, Sr., an oilman from Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, for the governorship.
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However, in the 1961 special election for the United States House of Representatives, Shannon had penned the editorial endorsing the Democrat Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., who defeated Charlton Lyons to fill the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Representative Overton Brooks.