Lloyd Hartman Elliott

Elliott got his training as a history teacher at Glenville State College{{cite web|url=http://www.myja.org/halloffame/history/laureates/biography_Lloyd_Elliott.html|title=Lloyd H. Elliott|work=Past Laureates|publisher=Washington Business Hall of Fame|accessdate=21 August 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120142145/http://www.myja.org/halloffame/history/laureates/biography_Lloyd_Elliott.html|archivedate=20 November 2008}} and was principal of the Widen, West Virginia, school system from 1939 to 1942. He earned a master's degree from the University of West Virginia. He was a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II,{{cite news|first=Martha|last=Merrill|url=http://www.library.umaine.edu/yearbooks/content/1960/1960_1to30.pdf|title=President Elliott|year=1960|work=Prism|publisher=University of Maine|accessdate=21 August 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100622151303/http://library.umaine.edu/yearbooks/content/1960/1960_1to30.pdf|archivedate=22 June 2010}} and earned a PhD in educational administration at the University of Colorado. He became superintendent of schools for Boulder, Colorado, in 1947.

Elliott became a faculty member at Cornell University in 1948, becoming a professor of educational administration in 1951. On 1 July 1956 he became executive assistant to the President of the University. In 1958 Elliott became President of the University of Maine,{{cite news|title=College Head Named; U. of Maine Appoints Elliott of Cornell 9th President|date=6 February 1958|work=New York Times}} awarding President John F. Kennedy an honorary doctorate in October 1963.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cOhHAAAAIBAJ&pg=797,5890865|title=JFK to visit University of Maine today|date=19 October 1963|work=The Morning Record|accessdate=21 August 2011}} Elliott resigned in 1965 to become President of GWU, though some faculty members opposed his appointment.{{cite news|title=George Washington U. Is Upset Over Presidency; Elliott, From Maine School, Will Visit Campus Soon Pledges to Meet Faculty Who Oppose Appointment|last=Robertson|first=Nan|date=9 June 1965|work=New York Times}} He retired in July 1988.{{cite news|title=GW President Retires After Quietly Transforming School's Look|last=Feinberg|first=Lawrence|date=31 July 1988|newspaper=The Washington Post}} His style was gentler than that of his successor Stephen Trachtenberg: a trustee at GWU said that "The conservative guy from West Virginia had been succeeded by the kid from Brooklyn,". Meanwhile, some faculty posited that Elliott had done too little to recruit top faculty and students.

The GWU's School of International Affairs was renamed as the Elliott School of International Affairs in 1988 in his honor. He and his wife established the Evelyn E. and Lloyd H. Elliott Fund, to support a professorship and other activities of the school.

Elliott served as the board members at American Security Bank, Bell Atlantic, National Geographic Society, Perpetual Building Association and Woodward & Lothrop,{{cite news| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73796758.html?dids=73796758:73796758&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+09%2C+1987&author=Lawrence+Feinberg&pub=The+Washington+Post+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=GWU+President+Elliott+Will+Retire+Next+Year&pqatl=google| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107191330/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73796758.html?dids=73796758:73796758&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+09,+1987&author=Lawrence+Feinberg&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=GWU+President+Elliott+Will+Retire+Next+Year&pqatl=google| url-status=dead| archive-date=November 7, 2012| title=GWU President Elliott Will Retire Next Year| last=Feinberg| first=Lawrence| date=9 February 1987| newspaper=The Washington Post| accessdate=21 August 2011}} and he was included in the Washington Business Hall of Fame in 1990. He was the first president of the National Geographic Society Education Foundation.{{cite news| title=GWU President to Take Foundation Post| date=31 January 1988| newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Elliott was raised in Clay County, West Virginia, where his father was a schoolteacher and ran a farm.{{cite book| last=Kastor| first=John A.| title=Selling teaching hospitals and practice plans: George Washington and Georgetown Universities| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3Z7vWPYYbEC&pg=PA73| year=2008| publisher=JHU Press| isbn=978-0-8018-8811-3| page=73}}{{cite book| title=From strength to strength: a pictorial history of the George Washington University, 1821-1996| year=1996| publisher=George Washington University| isbn=0-9648258-0-5| page=80}} Elliott's wife Evelyn, known as Betty, died in the year 2009 aged 91. Together they had two children (Patricia and Gene), two grandchildren ( [https://www.govconwire.com/2020/12/michael-conlin-joins-definitive-logic-as-cto-ryan-elliott-named-chief-growth-officer/ Ryan] and Bevan), and eleven great-grandchildren.{{cite news| url=http://www.gwhatchet.com/2009/01/26/wife-of-former-gw-president-dies-at-91/| title=Wife of former GW president dies at 91| last=Cahn| first=Emily| date=26 January 2009| work=The GW Hatchet| accessdate=21 August 2011}} He died on January 1, 2013, according to a memo released by the former President of GWU, Steven Knapp, to the entire GWU community.{{cite web | url=http://gwtoday.gwu.edu/message-president-steven-knapp-passing-former-george-washington-university-president-lloyd-elliott | title = Message from Pres. Knapp Jan. 1, 2013}}

• Elliott, Lloyd H. Unique partners in progress: the University of Maine and the pulp and paper industry. Volume 34, Issue 8 of Newcomen address, Newcomen Society in North America, 1964, 24pp.
• Elliott, Lloyd H. The university and corporate America: bridging the two worlds. National Heritage Books, 2001

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