Wesley Lloyd

Wesley Lloyd

Wesley Lloyd (born July 24, 1883 in Arvonia , Osage County , Kansas , †  January 10, 1936 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1936 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Wesley Lloyd attended his home public schools, Baker University in Baldwin City and Washburn College in Topeka . He then worked in the newspaper business in Topeka and Kansas City . After studying law at the Kansas City Law School and being admitted to the bar in 1906, he began working in his new profession in Tacoma (Washington) in 1908 . He had already moved to this city in 1906 and worked there in the newspaper industry until 1908. From 1918 to 1920, Lloyd served as a corporal in the Washington State National Guard.

Politically, Lloyd was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1932 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the newly created sixth constituency of his state, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. After a re-election in 1934, he could remain in Congress until his death on January 10, 1936 . It was during this time that many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed in the House of Representatives under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933 the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment , the Prohibition Act, which came into force in 1919 . Wesley Lloyd was buried in Tacoma.

Web links

• Wesley Lloyd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wesley Lloyd in the database of Find a Grave (English)