Wesley Lloyd

Who was Wesley Lloyd?

Wesley Lloyd was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Born at Arvonia, Kansas, on July 24, 1883, attended the public schools, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, and Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, Lloyd engaged in newspaper work in Kansas City and Topeka. He graduated from the Kansas City Law School in 1906. He was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved to Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, and engaged in newspaper work until 1908 when he commenced the practice of law in Tacoma. He served as a corporal in the Washington National Guard 1918-1920. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 10, 1936. He was interred in Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington.