{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sherman P. Lloyd | image = ShermanPLloyd.jpg | birth_name = Sherman Parkinson Lloyd | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|01|11}} | birth_place = [[St. Anthony, Idaho|St. Anthony]], [[Idaho]], U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|12|15|1914|01|11}} | death_place = [[Salt Lake City, Utah|Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Salt Lake City Cemetery]] | resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|40|46|37.92|N|111|51|28.8|W|type:landmark|display=inline}} | state = [[Utah]] | district = [[Utah's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] | term_start1 = January 3, 1967 | term_end1 = January 3, 1973 | preceded1 = [[David S. King]] | succeeded1 = [[Wayne Owens]] | term_start2 = January 3, 1963 | term_end2 = January 3, 1965 | preceded2 = [[David S. King]] | succeeded2 = [[David S. King]] | office3 = Member of the [[Utah Senate]] | term_start3 = 1954 | term_end3 = 1962 | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | occupation = Lawyer | spouse = Edith Ann Gunn | children = 4 | education = [[Utah State University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br/>[[George Washington University]] ([[LLB]]) }} <!-- This article was automatically created by [[User:polbot]] from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000382. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. --> '''Sherman Parkinson Lloyd''' (January 11, 1914 – December 15, 1979) was an American lawyer and politician who served four terms as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Utah]] between 1963 and 1973.
== Early life and education == Lloyd was born in [[St. Anthony, Idaho|St. Anthony]], [[Fremont County, Idaho]], Lloyd's father was a counselor in the [[Stake Presidency]] at the time.<ref>Jenson. ''LDS Biographical Encyclopedia'', Vol. 4, p. 673</ref> Three of his grandparents were [[England|English]] immigrants.<ref> {{citation |url= https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8PD-WX6 |title= United States Census, 1920 |website= [[FamilySearch]] |accessdate=March 20, 2018 }}</ref> Lloyd attended St. Anthony and Rexburg public schools. Lloyd was a member of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. Lloyd received his B.S. from [[Utah State University]] in 1935 and then studied law at [[George Washington University]] from which he received his LL.B. in 1939.
== Career == As a law student, Lloyd worked as an employee of the [[United States Department of Agriculture]].<ref name="Utah History Encyclopedia">{{Citation | last = Salmon | first = Doris F. | title = Utah History Encyclopedia | publisher = University of Utah Press | year = 1994 | chapter = Lloyd, Sherman Parkinson | chapter-url = https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LLOYD_SHERMAN.shtml | url = https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240321165552/https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/l/LLOYD_SHERMAN.shtml | archive-date = March 21, 2024 | isbn =9780874804256 | access-date = June 22, 2024}}</ref>
He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1939 and began practice of law in [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]. He served as general counsel for Utah Retail Grocers Association from 1940 to 1962. He served as a member of the [[Utah State Senate]] from 1954 to 1962, majority leader in 1957, president in 1959, and minority leader in 1961.
=== Early political career === He served as a member of Utah Legislative Council from 1957 to 1961, and chairman from 1959 to 1961. He served as Utah representative on board of managers of Council of State Governments from 1959 to 1961. He served as chairman of the Council of State Governments Committee on State Taxation of Interstate Income from 1961 to 1962. He then served as director of Beehive State Bank from 1960 to 1966. He served as a delegate to the 1960, 1962, 1964, and 1966 Republican state conventions. He also served as a delegate to the [[1960 Republican National Convention]]. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1960.
=== Congress === Lloyd was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[88th United States Congress|Eighty-eighth]] Congress on November 6, 1962, defeating fellow State Senator [[Bruce Sterling Jenkins]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121023065238/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829376-2,00.html New Faces – TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Lloyd served in Congress from January 3, 1963 to January 3, 1965. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1964, choosing to launch an unsuccessful bid for [[United States Senate]]. He then returned to Utah to become vice president of Prudential Federal Savings, where he managed public relations. Lloyd was also a lecturer at the [[University of Utah]].
Lloyd was elected to the [[90th United States Congress|Ninetieth]] and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1973). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1972. He was later appointed assistant director of the [[United States Information Agency]] in 1973. He again returned to Utah to teach at [[Utah State University]] from 1973 to 1974, holding the Milton R. Merrill Chair in Political Science.<ref name="Utah History Encyclopedia" />
=== Later career === Lloyd was named a trade specialist in charge of the Utah office of the [[United States Department of Commerce]] in 1974. He was an unsuccessful candidate [[1976 United States Senate election in Utah|1976]] United States Senate election in Utah. After his primary defeat, he became an editor and publisher.
== Death and burial == Lloyd resided in Salt Lake City, where he died, December 15, 1979. He was interred in [[Salt Lake City Cemetery]].
== References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|L000382}} {{Bioguide}}
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{{UtahUSRepresenatives}} *Lloyd, Sherman P., [http://archives.lib.byu.edu/repositories/14/resources/11702 Sherman P. Lloyd Papers]; MSS 8537; 20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts; L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University.
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