Lloyd Stanley Etheredge Obituary
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Lloyd was born in Washington DC on May 31, 1946.His parents were James and Ruth Etheredge, founding members of Hughes Methodist Church. He grew up in Maryland suburbs, attended Walter Johnson High School (student council president) then on to Oberlin College and a PhD from Yale University. He taught at leading institutions such as MIT, Yale, Swarthmore, Oberlin, Duke, and University of Toronto, helped found the new discipline of political psychology, authored three books on foreign policy and government learning (A World of Men, Can Governments Learn?, and Politics In Wired Nations – Selected Writings of Ithiel de Sola Pool), and contributed hundreds of monographs, articles, book reviews, and suggestions for improving national intelligence. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science and contributed to its agenda to advance human well-being globally. For years, he has been affiliated with the Yale Policy Sciences Center.
Lloyd valued the wonderful family, friends, students and colleagues, who contributed so much to his life. In turn, he will be remembered for his friendships, professional contributions, family support, and commitments to advancing human welfare everywhere. His hobbies included cooking for family, colorful art prints, gardening – and Ms. Tennessee Whiskey (his cat).
One of Lloyd’s projects was to advance an ecumenical agenda for the world’s future, aligning all major religious traditions. He contributed ideas to many Christian, religious, political, educational, UN and other leaders. In recent years, he advanced a deep understanding of Wisdom in Public Policy (a book chapter covering 2,000 + years), the origins of the 14th Amendment, and the role of oaths to protect the Constitution. He became an expert for AI in cancer research and was named to Johns Hopkins advisory committee on this topic.
Lloyd’s latest project to advance big ideas to generate a better world, with colleagues, was re-design of the political science curriculum, using insights from political psychology studies, primate subordination syndrome, Lord of the Flies lessons, and the US Constitutional and political history.
Lloyd passed away peacefully at Johns Hopkins hospital on October 19, 2025. He is survived by his brother, Lynn, and by his close family Lynn and Victoria Fischer, by their daughters Rani and Sheila (and her husband Michael), and by granddaughter Ellie, and by cousins Scott Russell and Gayle Cassar.