Marilyn Lloyd
| Marilyn Lloyd | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 3rd district |
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In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | LaMar Baker |
| Succeeded by | Zach Wamp |
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Rachel Marilyn Laird January 3, 1929 Fort Smith, Arkansas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mort Lloyd Joseph P. Bouquard Robert Fowler |
| Religion | Churches of Christ |
Rachel Marilyn Lloyd (née Laird; born January 3, 1929) is a Tennessee businesswoman and 10-term member of the United States House of Representatives (1975–95).
Rachel Marilyn Laird was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1929, the daughter of a Church of Christ pastor. She graduated from Western Kentucky College High School, a high school that associated with what is now Western Kentucky University, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1945. She attended Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. She owned radio station WTTI in Dalton, Georgia, and Executive Aviation in Winchester, Tennessee.
Lloyd's first husband, Mort Lloyd, died in an airplane crash in 1974. In 1978, she married engineer Joseph P. Bouquard. In 1983, the couple divorced, and she resumed using the name Marilyn Lloyd. In 1991, she married Dr. Robert Fowler, a physician, who also predeceased her.
Lloyd has three children (Nancy, Mari and Mort) all from her marriage to Mort Lloyd.
Mort Lloyd was a popular television anchor at WDEF-TV in Chattanooga, who had entered the 1974 Democratic primary for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district, to oppose two-term incumbent Republican Congressman LaMar Baker. Lloyd won the primary in the Chattanooga-based district, but he was killed in an airplane crash on his way to celebrate the victory, and the Democratic Party selected his widow to replace him on the ballot. She went on to defeat Baker in the General Election in November. That election saw many Republicans, in competitive and marginal districts, defeated, in large part because of the Watergate scandal.
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