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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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LLOYD, Sherman Parkinson, a Representative from Utah; born in St. Anthony, Fremont County,
Idaho, January 11, 1914; attended St. Anthony and Rexburg public schools; Utah
State University at Logan, B.S., 1935 and from George Washington University Law
School, Washington, D.C., LL.B., 1939; was admitted to the bar in 1939 and
began practice of law in Salt Lake City, Utah; general counsel for Utah Retail
Grocers Association 1940-1962; member of the State senate, 1954-1962, serving
as majority leader in 1957, president in 1959, and minority leader in 1961;
member of Utah Legislative Council, 1957-1961, chairman, 1959-1961; served as
Utah representative on board of managers of Council of State Governments,
1959-1961; chairman, Council of State Governments Committee on State Taxation
of Interstate Income, 1961-1962; director of Beehive State Bank, 1960-1966;
delegate, State conventions 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966; delegate, Republican
National Convention, 1960; unsuccessful candidate in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh
Congress; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth Congress, November 6,
1962 (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965); was not a candidate for reelection in
1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress, but was an unsuccessful candidate for
nomination for the United States Senate; returned to Utah to become vice
president of Prudential Federal Savings, in charge of public relations;
lecturer at the University of Utah; elected to the Ninetieth and to the two
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1973); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1972 to the Ninety-third Congress; appointed assistant
director of the United States Information Agency in 1973; again returned to
Utah to teach at Utah State University, 1973-1974; named trade specialist in
charge of the Utah office of the Department of Commerce in 1974; unsuccessful
candidate for nomination in 1976 to the United States Senate; became an editor
and publisher; resided in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he died, December 15,
1979; interment in Salt Lake City Cemetery.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Sherman P. Lloyd, Republican Representative
from Utah. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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