Hank Lyon (born February 13, 1988) is an American Republican Party politician. Lyon joined the Morris County, New Jersey

Board of Chosen Freeholders In New Jersey, a Board of County Commissioners (until 2020 named the Board of Chosen Freeholders) is the elected county-wide government board in each of the state's 21 counties. In the five counties that have an elected county executive, the ...

on March 10, 2012, and served a special one-year term on the board, becoming the youngest freeholder in the state at age 24.Hank Lyon
, Morris County, New Jersey

. Accessed January 5, 2017. Lyon was reelected as Freeholder in 2014. A resident of the Towaco section of Montville, Lyon majored in economics and physics at the College of the Holy Cross. After a court battle in which Nordstron sought to overturn Lyon's victory in the Republican Party primary after his narrow ten-vote victory, Lyon was appointed to the seat that had been held by Margaret Nordstrom. The court battle was due to Lyon not following election rules regarding disclosing campaign finances. Lyon ran unopposed in the 2014 Republican primary. Lyon is a member of the Board of School Estimate for the

County College of Morris County College of Morris (CCM) is a public community college in Randolph, New Jersey. CCM offers associate degree and certificate programs as well as transfer opportunities for students looking to pursue a bachelor's degree at another instituti ...

and the

Morris County School of Technology The Morris County School of Technology (MCVTS or MCST) is a vocational magnet public high school located in Denville Township, in Morris County, United States, operating as part of the Morris County Vocational School District. This school pre ...

Policy

During his tenure on the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders from 2012 to 2018, Lyon fought to stabilize taxes, reduce debt, and maintain funding for law enforcement, education, human services, and infrastructure improvements. In 2012, Lyon was the only freeholder who voted against the proposed county budget, which included tax hikes. As chairman of the Freeholder Budget Committee in 2013, Lyon authored a county budget that kept property taxes flat for the first time in a generation while maintaining funding for essential programs and reducing debt. Lyon successfully championed similar budgets with zero-percent county tax increases in 2014 and 2015 budgets.

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1988 births Living people College of the Holy Cross alumni County commissioners in New Jersey New Jersey Republicans People from Montville, New Jersey {{NewJersey-politician-stub