Name Boyd Tackett Resigned January 3, 1953 Occupation Attorney Succeeded by Oren Harris | Residence Texarkana, Arkansas Party Democratic Party Political party Democratic Role U.S. representative | |
Born May 9, 1911
Black Springs, Montgomery County
Arkansas, USA ( 1911-05-09 ) Resting place Restland Memorial Park in Nashville, Arkansas Alma mater Arkansas Tech University
Ouachita Baptist University
University of Arkansas School of Law Died February 23, 1985, Nashville, Arkansas, United States Education University of Arkansas School of Law, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkansas Tech University | ||
Preceded by William Fadjo Cravens Service/branch United States Army | ||
Boyd Anderson Tackett (May 9, 1911 – February 23, 1985) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.
Biography
Tackett was born near Black Springs in Montgomery County in southwestern Arkansas. He moved with his parents to Glenwood, Arkansas, and attended public school; afterwards, he matriculated at Arkansas Polytechnic College at Russellville (1930–1932), continued at Ouachita College in Arkadelphia (1932–1933), and graduated in 1935 from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville.
After being admitted to the bar, Tackett practiced law in Glenwood, Murfreesboro, and Nashville, Arkansas, until he was elected in 1936 to the Arkansas House of Representatives. He also served as the prosecuting attorney of the 9th Judicial Circuit of Arkansas until 1943, when he enlisted in the United States Army. Tackett served as a corporal in the Signal Corps until his discharge in 1944, when he resumed his law practice in Nashville.
In 1948, Tackett was elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th District as a Democrat to the 81st and 82nd Congresses. He did not seek reelection to the House in 1952 but instead lost his bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Francis Cherry. Tackett returned to Texarkana and his law practice, where he remained until retirement in 1980.
Tackett lived again in Nashville, Arkansas, from 1983 until his death two years later. He was interred there at Restland Memorial Park.