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Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Sep 21, 2018
Former U.S. Rep. Marilyn Lloyd, the first woman elected to Congress from Tennessee for a full term, died on Wednesday at 89, The Times Free Press reports. Lloyd received the Democratic nomination for Congress in August 1974 after her husband, Mort, was killed in a plane crash after winning the Democratic primary earlier that month. She defeated two-term Congressman E. Lamar Baker later that year. Twenty years later, she chose not to run for reelection, leaving Congress without ever losing a race. Her family will receive friends at Chattanooga Church, 6188 Adamson Circle, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, with a celebration of life at 1 p.m. on Sunday.