Lloyd Thomas Bryan, Jr passed away in the early hours of July 4, 2025, due to heart failure at the age of 92. He is survived by his 2nd wife, Jean Olson, his three children, Caroline Mudd, Amy Bryan and Andrew Bryan, and his six grandchildren, Jeremy Mudd, Genevieve Mudd, Julia Mudd, Carolina Bryan, Isaac Bryan and Jackson Bryan. Tom's first wife, Janet Haenlein Bryan, died in 1993 of liver cancer at age 59. He is also survived by his older brother, Barry Bryan, age 95.

Tom was the youngest son of Amy Swank Bryan and Lloyd Thomas Bryan, born in Palmerton, PA, and spent most of his childhood in Maplewood, NJ. He graduated from Mercersburg Academy and went on to get his BA from Yale University and graduated from Yale Law School in 1958.

Tom joined the Sherman and Sterling law firm in NY shortly after law school, and in 1966 he and a few volunteers traveled to Jackson, Mississippi with the Southern Poverty Law Center to provide pro bono assistance to 2,000 black and white college students imprisoned for protesting civil rights offenses.

While living in Brooklyn, he volunteered with the Lawyer's Committee to fight for rent control for local residents.

With a new job working for the First National Bank of Chicago, Tom and his family moved to Winnetka, Ill, and then to Frankfurt, Germany in 1968. He was then hired by the First National Bank of Boston, and moved his family to London England, and then back to Boston in 1973.

At age 56, Tom decided to retire from banking and volunteered with the Private Industry Council, which provided high school kids jobs and internships as incentives to graduate and go on to college. While living in the South End in Boston, he was on the board of the Boston Redevelopment Association, and was instrumental in obtaining funding for the Cyclorama and South End theater and artist studio renovation projects.

He joined the Environmental Law Foundation as a volunteer, and spent years advocating and lobbying for the Cape Wind energy project, among other carbon-reducing initiatives.

Right up until the day before he died, Tom was emailing and working with other volunteers in his retirement community to support climate change  legislation, increase voter registration, protect voters' rights and, ultimately, the democracy he fervently believed in.