Lloyd, Lola Maverick (1875-1944)

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Peace Expedition Committee of Administration

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International Congress of Women (1919)

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Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, January 6, 1904

Emily Greene Balch and Chrystal Macmillan to Jane Addams, June 8, 1915

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Delegation List to Meet President Wilson, August 29, 1916

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Henry Ford et al. to Jane Addams, December 7, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer, Lola Maverick Lloyd, Florence Holbrook, Alfred Will Kliefoth to Jane Addams, December 8, 1915

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Lola Maverick Lloyd to Jane Addams, March 6, 1916

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Birth Date

1875-11-24

Death Date

1944-07-25

Birthplace

Castroville, TX

Biographical Text

Lola Maverick Lloyd was an American peace activist and educator. She was a graduate from, as well as a mathematics teacher at, Smith College. She and her husband used their wealth and influence to support progressive causes. She helped establish the Woman's Peace Party and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1915. Lloyd co-founded the Campaign for World Government in 1937 with Rosika Schwimmer and organized Henry Ford's Peace Ship, a failed effort to force a peace conference to end World War I. She was a member of the "Committee of Seven" overseeing the resulting Neutral Conference for Continuous Mediation. Lloyd was also a member of the National Woman's Party, the Socialist Party of Illinois, and the Women's Committee for the Recognition of Soviet Russia in 1920. In 1926, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland to work more closely with the WILPF. In 1939. Lloyd later moved back to the United States due to poor health,

Lloyd married William Bross Lloyd in 1902. In 1916, Lloyd and her husband divorced, and because of their wealth and prominence, the divorce was very public. Lloyd died from pancreatic cancer in 1944.

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Peace activist

Teacher

Woman suffrage activist

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Picture: Lola Maverick Lloyd, U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925, issued March 31, 1915

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Hajo, Cathy Moran

Lichon, Sara Catherine

Rights

Public domain

Gender

Female

First appears

1902

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“Lloyd, Lola Maverick (1875-1944),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 11, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/454.