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Alden Lowell Doud

Birth	:	17 Oct 1935 Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	1 Oct 2012 Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, USA
Burial	:	Mount Moriah Cemetery, Douds, Van Buren County, USA
Coordinate	:	40.8710000, -92.0860000
Description	:	Alden Lowell Doud, 77, of Iowa City, formerly of Douds died Monday October 1, 2012, at Lantern Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Coralville. He was born March 17, 1935, in Ottumwa the only child of Alden Loring and Edna May Bralliar Doud. He spent his early years in Douds, a village founded by his great-grandfather, was educated in the public schools of Douds-Leando and graduated with honors from Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Following law school, he joined the Army Judge Advocate General's Corp, and was stationed at its Headquarters at the Pentagon. He held... Read More	Alden Lowell Doud, 77, of Iowa City, formerly of Douds died Monday October 1, 2012, at Lantern Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Coralville. He was born March 17, 1935, in Ottumwa the only child of Alden Loring and Edna May Bralliar Doud. He spent his early years in Douds, a village founded by his great-grandfather, was educated in the public schools of Douds-Leando and graduated with honors from Iowa Wesleyan College, Mt. Pleasant and Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. Following law school, he joined the Army Judge Advocate General's Corp, and was stationed at its Headquarters at the Pentagon. He held the ranks of First Lieutenant and Captain. After leaving the Army, he practiced law with the firm now known as Sidley, Austin, Brown and Wood in Chicago. In 1967, he returned to Washington, D.C. to join the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. State Department. He was its first Assistant Legal Adviser for Environmental Affairs, and attended the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972 as part of the U.S. delegation. He wrote the first drafts of several environmental treaties including the World Heritage Convention and the Ocean Dumping Convention, and participated in many international negotiations. He was also a member of the U.S. delegation in the negotiations forming the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (INTELSAT). In 1968, he was a Senior Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School researching European Communities law under a Ford Foundation grant. Mr. Doud joined the Legal Department of the World Bank in 1973 as its principal administrative lawyer and retired in 1996 with the title Chief Counsel, Administration. After retirement, he studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, from which he received a diploma, and studied further at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. He moved to Iowa City in 1998, where he remained until his death. He was a Trustee of Iowa Wesleyan College, and was Chairman of its Board of Trustees from 1998 until 2005, when he received the honorary degree Ll. D. and was made Chairman Emeritus. He was a member of the University of Iowa President's Club, the Members' Council of the University Museum of Art, other arts-related organizations, the Harvard Club of New York City and the Episcopal Church. Relatives and friends survive. A burial liturgy service will be held at 2 P.M. Thursday October 4, 2012, in Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, Rev. Benjamin Webb and Rev. Michael Lankford officiating. Visitation will be open at the church 12-2 P.M. prior to the service. The funeral service will be at 11 A.M. Friday October 5, 2012, in Mt Moriah Church, 14889 120th Street, rural Douds, Rev. Herbert Schafer officiating. Visitation will be 10-11 A.M. at the church prior to the service. In accord with Lowell's wishes, the casket will remain closed. Burial will be in Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Memorials to Iowa Wesleyan College, University of Iowa Museum of Art or Mt. Moriah Cemetery may be left at either service or mailed to Jon P. Finney, 17248 Hwy. 1, Keosauqua, IA 52565. Pedrick Funeral Home, Keosauqua is handling arrangements. John Alden, ancestor to Lowell was one of the original signers of the Mayflower Compact. His name appears right above Myles Standish. History behind the Mayflower Compact The Mayflower Compact was signed on 11 November 1620 on board the Mayflower, which was at anchor in Provincetown Harbor. The document was drawn up in response to "mutinous speeches" that had come about because the Pilgrims had intended to settle in Northern Virginia, but the decision was made after arrival to instead settle in New England. Since there was no government in place, some felt they had no legal obligation to remain within the colony and supply their labor. The Mayflower Compact attempted to temporarily establish that government until a more official one could be drawn up in England that would give them the right to self-govern themselves in New England. In a way, this was the first American Constitution, though the Compact in practical terms had little influence on subsequent American documents. John Quincy Adams, a descendant of Mayflower passenger John Alden, does call the Mayflower Compact the foundation of the U.S. Constitution in a speech given in 1802, but this was in principle more than in substance. In reality, the Mayflower Compact was superseded in authority by the 1621 Peirce Patent, which not only gave the Pilgrims the right to self-government at Plymouth, but had the significant advantage of being authorized by the King of England. The Mayflower Compact was first published in 1622. William Bradford wrote a copy of the Mayflower Compact down in his History Of Plymouth Plantation which he wrote from 1630-1654, and that is the version given above. Neither version gave the names of the signers. Nathaniel Morton in his New England's Memorial, published in 1669, was the first to record and publish the names of the signers, and Thomas Prince in his Chronological History of New England in the form of Annals (1736) recorded the signers names as well, as did Thomas Hutchinson in 1767. It is unknown whether the later two authors had access to the original document, or whether they were simply copying Nathaniel Morton's list of signers. The original Mayflower Compact has never been found, and is assumed destroyed. Thomas Prince may have had access to the original in 1736, and possibly Thomas Hutchinson did in 1767. If it indeed survived, it was likely a victim of Revolutionary War looting, along with other such Pilgrim valuables as Bradford's now lostRegister of Births and Deaths, his partially recovered Letterbook, and his entirely recovered History Of Plymouth Plantation. The term "Mayflower Compact" was not assigned to this document until 1793, when for the first time it is called the Compact in Alden Bradford's A Topographical Description of Duxborough, in the County of Plymouth. Previously it had been called "an association and agreement" (William Bradford), "combination" (Plymouth Colony Records), "solemn contract" (Thomas Prince, 1738), and "the covenant" (Rev. Charles Turner, 1774).

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Alden Lowell Doud's memorial is located at: Mount Moriah Cemetery, Douds, Van Buren County, USA.
When did Alden Lowell Doud death?
Alden Lowell Doud death on 1 Oct 2012 in Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, USA
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Latitude: 40.8710000
Longitude: -92.0860000

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Alden Loring Doud

(1894 - 1961)

Edna May Bralliar Doud

(1903 - 1978)

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