Early years Guy H. Lockwood was born on June 26, 1870, in
Minneapolis.
Socialist propagandist In 1898 Lockwood attracted regional attention when he led a party of four delegates to the First National Convention of the
Social Democracy of America in a painted propaganda wagon — a journey of 2,000 miles from Tennessee to Chicago, the site of the convention. During the journey Lockwood and his political associates stopped in towns along their route to lecture about socialism from the back of their wagon, with Lockwood selling pen-and-ink caricatures and greeting cards to raise funds for the journey. In
1928, Lockwood stood for election heading the Socialist Party's Michigan ticket as its candidate for Governor. Lockwood would remain politically active in Socialist Party politics into his 60s, gaining election state organizer of the
Socialist Party of Michigan in 1934, in which capacity he took part in socialist lectures around the state.
Death and legacy Guy Lockwood died at his home in
Kalamazoo, Michigan, on September 28, 1947. Lockwood's papers are housed at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center of
Western Michigan University, located in his longtime hometown of Kalamazoo. ==Footnotes==