In October 1918, Tyson's son, Charles McGhee Tyson (1889–1918), a pilot in the United States Navy, was lost over the North Sea while scouting for mines. After Germany's surrender, Tyson left the front to help search for his son off the coast of Scotland. In 1926, Scripps-Howard merged the Sentinel with the Knoxville News to form the Knoxville News Sentinel. He defeated Republican candidate, Hugh B. Lindsay, in the general election later that year. He was sworn in as a Senator on March 4, 1925.
Death and legacy
thumb|right|Grave of Tyson at Old Gray Cemetery
Tyson died, at the age of 68, in 1929 at a sanitarium in Strafford, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Old Gray Cemetery in Knoxville.
In 1927, Lawrence and Bettie Tyson donated the land for what is now Tyson Park, as well as land for an airstrip (originally in West Knoxville), to the City of Knoxville, asking in return that the city name the airstrip for their son, Charles McGhee Tyson. In 2012, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the General Lawrence D. Tyson House.
See also
- List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)
Notes
References
External links
- Lawrence D. Tyson: Philanthropist
- Retrieved on 2008-03-20