Lloyd, Lola Maverick (1875-1944)

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Peace Expedition Committee of Administration

Woman's Peace Party, Chicago Branch

Woman's Peace Party (WPP)

International Congress of Women (1919)

Jane Addams and Edward F. Dunne to Samuel M. Jones, October 8, 1903

Richard Theodore Ely to Jane Addams, January 6, 1904

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

Emily Greene Balch to Jane Addams, July 3, 1915

Mabel L. Hyers to Jane Addams, September 13, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, January 10, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to George Washington Kirchwey, January 26, 1916

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, March 12, 1916

Jane Addams to Harriet Park Thomas, March 20, 1916

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, March 25, 1916.

Harriet Park Thomas to Jane Addams, June 29, 1916

Delegation List to Meet President Wilson, August 29, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Rebecca Shelley, November 13, 1916

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Rebecca Shelley, December 4, 1916

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, February 11, 1920

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, April 3, 1920

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, April 5, 1920

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, April 27, 1920

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Jane Addams, April 28, 1920

Rosika Schwimmer to Emily Greene Balch, April 29, 1920

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, June 1, 1920

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

Anna Sofia Kleman et al. to Jane Addams, December 29, 1915

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 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 (WILPF) 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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“Lloyd, Lola Maverick (1875-1944),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed January 16, 2021, https://digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/454.