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.
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.
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