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Matthew Lyon :
was a free speech advocate
1. Irish-born American printer, farmer, soldier and politician
2. served as a United States Representative from both Vermont and Kentucky.
3. represented Vermont in Congress from 1797 to 1801, and represented Kentucky from 1803 to 1811.
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4. brawled with one Congressman
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5. Lyon also has the distinction of being the only person to be elected to Congress while in jail. On October 10, 1798, he was found guilty of violating the Alien and Sedition Acts, which prohibited malicious writing about the American government as a whole, or of the houses of Congress, or of the president. ( alleged that he had Jacobinic (or French Revolutionary) principles)
6. won re-election to Congress from inside his jail cell.
7. Lyon's trial, conviction, and incarceration boosted his status among the fledgling Democratic-Republican Party as a free-speech martyr.
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8 . founded Fair Haven, Vermont in 1783 and returned to the state House of Representatives from 1783 to 1796 as its member.
9. Lyon also built and operated various kinds of mills in Fair Haven, including a gristmill, sawmill, and paper mill, in addition to an iron foundry.
10. During the American Revolutionary War, Lyon served as a colonel in the Green Mountain Boys
11. He played an important part in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.
12. After the signing of the Declaration of Independence, he joined the Continental Army and served as a second lieutenant under General George Washington.
