JAMES LLOYD
Lloyd, James
(1769-1831), a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., in December 1769; attended the
Boston Latin School and graduated from Harvard University in 1787; became a merchant and was interested in foreign
trade; member, State house of representatives 1800-1801; member, State senate 1804; elected as a Federalist to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Quincy Adams in 1808; reelected, and
served from June 9, 1808, until May 1, 1813, when he resigned; again elected in 1822 to the United States Senate to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Harrison Gray Otis; reelected, and served from June 5, 1822, until May
23, 1826, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Eighteenth Congress), Committee on Commerce
(Nineteenth Congress); retired from public life and moved to Philadelphia, Pa., in 1826; died in New York City,
April 5, 1831; interment in Kings’ Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Mass.
Sources:
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell |