The Washington times., 1929-08-24
TYSON
SUCCUMBs
IN PENNA.

fHILAnRLPHIk. Pa, Aug. -
q.N.sA - Unitsd states Senator
lawrence Tyson ot Tennessee died
at stafford sanitariom. about fgI
miles from here. early today.
He was taken to the sanitariunn
about two weeks ago suffering from
nervous breakdown. PhyaiciansI
pronounced his death this morning
due to "compIete exhaustion. /"
Hanator Tyson huffered severe
relapse last night and his wife and
only dauRhtor, Mrs. Thomas Gilkin,
were hastily summoned to his bed
side. They werO, with him when
the end came.
The senator was the holder Of
the Congressional Medal OF Honor
for Ms world War service. He
was commissioned a brigadier gen
aral during the conflict and at.
tAched to the Thirtieth Division
which he later commanded while
under fire.
NOfn On Farm 81
Upon his return from the war
he entered private life and then
years old ana was born on a. farm
near 0Feenville. Nc. I.
He has one child, q daughter, who
was with her mother At tha dying
statesmaIl'E bedside. Hie only son
was killed In the war In an airplane
accident.
The Senator was q West Pointer,
graduating In 1888, and waA as
signed to the Ninth Infantry, serv..
ing IL years In various parts OF the
country. He was professor OF mil
itary sciencs and tactics at the
University of Tennessee, frem which
he graduated with degree OF B. l..
He received honorary degrees of
LII. B. from TusculUni College in
1925 and the University Of the South
in 1928. He resigned his United
States Army commission in 1895 to
practice law.
In Spanish war
He volunteered for the Spa nish.
American War in 1888. and was
appointed by Pr, ;ident Mckinley
as colonel of the Sixth Regiment,
Il. 9. Volunteer Infantry, which he
recruited, trained and took TO Porto
Rico for service. On being mustered
out. March IS, 1893, he returned to
Knoxville. He became interestsd In
the National Guard OF Tennessee
and was brigadier and ins2ector
general.
Volunteering at the outbreak Of
the World War. Tyson was commits.
stoned brigadier general in command
Of all National Guard troops In Ten.
nssaee. Later commissioned by PreAi-
dent Wilson. brIGadier general, he
was assigned to the E'ifty.nlnth
brigade, Thirtieth DiviAion, made up
chiefly OF men Of Tennessee, North
and South CAROLINA.
The division trained at Camp
Sewer, 8. c. It embarked for France
May 10. 1918. landing at. Calais. It
took part in the enRa gements In the
canal sector, Belgium, July to
August 80; Ypres.Lys' offensive. Bel.
GUM, August 80 to September 3.
The Somme offensive; September
to October 20, 1918, and in TysoTl's
own brigade OF 5000 men S,700 we're
lost, killed and wounded.
Wen High MODors
He embarked with his brigade for
the United states from Sts NaGaire.
March Is. 1919, and was mustered
out April IS, 1918, He was awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal for
exceptionally ineritorious and disttn'
guished service.
Returning to his home in Knox-
vile he re-engaged In business and
became constantly more and more
active in politics. He had been
elected to the legislature In 1893,
and made speaker Of the house.
He was q delegate-at-large to the
Democratic convention in 1908, and
received 81 votes for United States
Senator in the legislature OF 1913,
50 being necessary for choice.
In 1920 Tennessee indOrsed him
for the Democratic nomination for
Vice President. In the Democratic
primary, August, 1924, ne was nOmi.
mated for United States Senator and
was elected the following November
over Judge H. B. Lindsay, Repub-
Iican nominee.