Marilyn Lloyd
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).
Biographical information
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.
Personal life
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.
Political and congressional career