Lloyd, Georgia, 1913-....

Author, peace activist, world government advocate and philanthropist Georgia Lloyd, 1913-1999, was executive secretary of the Campaign for World Government from 1943 until 1990. A descendant of two well-to-do politically and civically active families, the Lloyds of Illinois and the Mavericks of Texas, Georgia was also a proponent of civil and women's rights, labor and socialism. Over the course of her seventy year activist career she was involved with the Chicago Civil Liberties Committee, the National Woman's Party, the Socialist Party of Chicago, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

The fourth child of pacifist Lola Maverick Lloyd and Chicago Tribune heir William Bross Lloyd, Georgia was born September 5, 1913 in the Winnetka, Illinois "Wayside House" of her paternal grandfather Henry Demarest Lloyd. Her great-grandfather, William Bross, helped elect Lincoln to the Presidency, served as acting governor of Illinois from 1865 to 1869, and was a cofounder of the Chicago Tribune. Her grandfather Henry Demarest Lloyd, son-in-law to Bross, was an advocate for social reform and author of the history of Standard Oil, Wealth Versus Commonwealth. Georgia's father, William Bross Lloyd, ran for Senate as the Socialist candidate from Illinois in 1918, although his political leanings changed dramatically in later years.

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