Wesley Lloyd

Wesley Lloyd (July 24, 1883 – January 10, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Washington.

Born at Arvonia, Kansas, on July 24, 1883, attended the public schools, Baker University, Baldwin, Kansas, and Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, Lloyd engaged in newspaper work in Kansas City and Topeka. He graduated from the Kansas City Law School in 1906. He was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved to Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, and engaged in newspaper work until 1908 when he commenced the practice of law in Tacoma. He served as a corporal in the Washington National Guard 1918-1920. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 10, 1936. He was interred in Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington.

Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution

On May 9th, 1933, Congressman Wesley Lloyd proposed an amendment to allow for a maximum wealth no less than $1,000,000 "gold dollars". The amendment read as follows:

SECTION 1. Congress shall have power to limit the wealth of the individual citizens of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and of all persons owning property within the jurisdiction of the laws of the United States. SECTION 2. No law shall be enacted fixing the maximum amount of wealth allowed to any one individual at a sum less in value than 1,000,000 gold dollars, 25& grains, nine tenths fine. , SECTION 3. The power of levying and collecting taxes for revenue · under the existing articles of the Constitution and the amendments thereto shall be in no wise abridged. SECTION 4. All sections of the Constitution of the United States inconsistent herewith are suspended for the purpose of carrying this article into effect. SECTION 5. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment of the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within 7 years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by Congress.

Sources

• United States Congress. "Wesley Lloyd (id: L000383)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Wesley Lloyd at Find a Grave

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