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Show State Sen. Sherman Lloyd Seeks GOP Congressional Nomination tPKr I v i ii if i jlii iriniiTmlff innrinrirnm election for state senator. In 1957 he was chosen Republican Repub-lican majority floor leader and in 1959 was elected president of the Senate. In his statement announcing his candidacy Sen. Lloyd said: "In devoting virtually all my adult life to championing the cause of small business, I have done so with the conviction that our greatest bulwark against socialism and a totalitarian form of government is a healthy existence exist-ence of great numbers of free and independent thinking and acting Americans engaged in small business pursuits. "In preserving a competitive system in which both big business busi-ness and small busines can prosper, pros-per, it is my strong feeling that what small business needs and wants is not the New Deal philosophy phil-osophy of handouts and supervision, super-vision, but rather the freedom to compete on fair and reasonable reason-able terms, which include a realistic real-istic re-examination of tax structures struc-tures to permit small business to grow and reinvest in its future. Equality of opportunity is vitally vital-ly essential to preserve free enterprise." en-terprise." The candidate said he would wage a "fighting campaign." He is a graduate of Utah State University and George Washington Washing-ton University Law School and a member of the Utah State Bar. A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints he is married to the former Edith Ann Gunn of Richfield. They are the parents of four children. SHERMAN P. LLOYD A Republican state senator, Sherman P. Lloyd, this week announced an-nounced his candidacy for the GOP nomination for Congress from the Second Congressional District. Sen. Lloyd, currently serving as president of the Senate and chairman of the Utah Legislative Council, is seeking the nomination nomina-tion from the district comprising Salt Lake, Tocele and Utah Counties. The candidate, a practicing attorney, is general counsel and secretary of the Utah Retail Grocers Association. In the last county wide senatorial sena-torial election in 1954 he was elected to his first seat in the Utah Senate. He was reelected in 1958 from Salt Lake County Senate District 3. A top Republican vote getter he received the largest number of votes of any candidate in the 1954 party convention, in the primary election and in the final |