Tom Terral
Thomas Jefferson Terral (December 21, 1882 – March 9, 1946) was an American attorney and the 27th governor of Arkansas, serving one term from 1925 to 1927.
Tom Terral
Earle W. Hodges
Ira C. Hopper
December 21, 1882
Union Parish, Louisiana, U.S.
March 9, 1946 (aged 63)
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.
Eula Terral
Early life[edit]
Terral was born in Union Parish in northern Louisiana. He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kentucky and transferred to the University of Arkansas School of Law in Fayetteville from which he graduated in 1910.[1] He was admitted to the bar in 1910 and established a private law practice in Little Rock. He also worked as a school teacher.
Death[edit]
After his term as governor, Terral made three unsuccessful comeback bids for Governor and returned to his private law practice in Little Rock, where he died in 1946. Terral is interred at Roselawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Little Rock. He and his wife, Eula Terral (same maiden and married names), originally from Pine Bluff in Jefferson County, had no children.[2]