Background
Lloyd, Ralph Waldo was born on October 6, 1892 in Friendsville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Henry Baldwin and Maud (Jones) Lloyd.
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Ralph Waldo Lloyd
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Bachelor of Arts, Maryville (Tennessee) College, 1915; Doctor of Divinity, Maryville (Tennessee) College, 1929; Bachelor of Divinity, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1924; Doctor of Laws, Centre College, 1940; Doctor of Laws, University Chattanooga, 1953; Doctor of Letters, Lake Forest College, 1954; Doctor of Letters, Westminster College, 1955; Doctor of Humane Letters, Lincoln Memorial U., 1955; S.T.D., Blackburn College, 1955; Pd.D., Monmouth College, 1961.
Career
Instructor, athletic coach, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, 1915-1917;
assistant to president, Westminster College, 1918-1919;
with, Fulton Sylphon Manufacturing Company, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1920-1921;
ordained to ministry, Presbyterian Church, United States of America, 1923;
supply, First Presbyterian Church, Ossian, Indiana, 1922-1923;
pastor, First Church, Murphysboro, Illinois, 1924-1926;
pastor, Edgewood Church, Pittsburgh, 1926-1930;
president, Maryville College, 1930-1961;
president emeritus, Maryville College, from 1961. Moderator Presbytery of Cairo, Illinois, 1926, Presbytery of Union, 1932-1933, Synod of Mid-South, 1944-1946. General council Presbyterian Synod Tennessee, 1931-1940, chairman, 1940-1942.
Member permanent commission inter church relations Presbyterian Church United States of America, 1938-1958, chairman, 1941-1958, moderator general assembly, 1954-1955. Member Presbyterian Church United States of America deputation to China, 1946. Chairman of Commission lay education Presbyterian Council on Theological Education, 1943-1948.
Member of commission on ecumenical mission and relations United Presbyterian Church United States of America, 1958-1960. Member Southern area board Young Men’s Christian Association, 1939-1954. National Council Commission Student Work., 1939-1942, chairman Southern area, 1942-1945, president Southern area council, 1946-1948.
Am.sec. World Alliance Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, 1951-1959, president, 1959-1964. Member central committee World Council Churches, 1951-1961. General board National Council Churches, 1950-1960.
President Affiliated Indiana Colls. Tennessee, Inc., 1958-1961. Member National Conference Church Related Colls., 1937-1945, vice president, 1937, president, 1938.
President Pan-Presbyterian College Union, Presbyterian College Union, 1943, Tennessee College Association, 1942-1943. Member of commission institutions higher education Southern Association Colleges Secondary Schools, 1940-1947. Delegate Presbyterian Church in United States of America, World Council Churches, Amsterdam, 1948, Evanston, 1954, New Delhi, 1961.
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Served as First lieutenant United States Army, 1917-1918.
Connections
Married Margaret Anderson Bell, June21, 1917. Children: John Vernon, Hal Baldwin, Ruth Bell (Mistress Frank A. Kramer), Louise Margaret (Mistress James E. Palm).
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Nationality
American