Boyd Anderson Tackett

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Boyd Anderson Tackett (May 9, 1911 – February 23, 1985) was an US Congress Representative from Arkansas.

He was born near Black Springs, Arkansas, May 9, 1911; moved with his parents to Glenwood, Arkansas, and attended the public schools; student at Arkansas Polytechnic College at Russellville 1930-1932, Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Ark., in 1932 and 1933, and graduated from the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville in 1935.

He was admitted to the bar in 1935 and practiced law in Glenwood, Murfreesboro, and Nashville, Ark.; member of the State legislature 1937-1941; elected prosecuting attorney of the ninth judicial circuit of Arkansas and served from January 1, 1941, until enlistment in the Armed Services; served as a corporal in the United States Army Signal Corps from October 4, 1943, until discharged on November 5, 1944; resumed law practice in Nashville, Ark.; State police commissioner, Little Rock, Ark. from 1945 to 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for renomination in 1952 but was unsuccessful for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination; resumed the practice of law in Texarkana, Ark., until his retirement in 1980.

He was a resident of Nashville, Ark., from 1983 until his death there on February 23, 1985; interment in Restland Memorial Park.

• Boyd Anderson Tackett at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

References

• Boyd Anderson Tackett at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Find-A-Grave biography

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