Leona Troxell
| Leona Anderson Troxell Dodd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 22, 1913 Johnstown, Fulton County New York, USA |
| Died | July 26, 2003 (aged 90) Judsonia, White County, Arkansas |
| Residence | Rose Bud, White County, Arkansas |
| Occupation |
Arkansas Republican National Committeewoman Government employee |
| Spouse(s) |
(1) Nolan Troxell (died 1971) (2) Russell Dodd (He predeceased her.) |
| Children | No children |
Arkansas Republican National Committeewoman
(1) Nolan Troxell (died 1971)
Leona Anderson Troxell Dodd, known politically as Leona Troxell (April 22, 1913 – July 26, 2003), was a native New Yorker who was a pioneer in the development of the Republican Party in her adopted state of Arkansas. She was president of the National Republican Women's Committee from 1963 to 1967, during which time she became involved in the gubernatorial campaigns of another New York State native, Winthrop Rockefeller. She was also a former Republican national committeewoman from Arkansas. For a time, she was director of the Arkansas Employment Security Division in the Rockefeller administration.
Mrs. Troxell was born in Johnstown in Fulton County in New York to Frank and Clara Anderson. She was the dean of women at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before she married Nolan Troxell (1904–1971) and moved to tiny Rose Bud in White County north of the state capital of Little Rock.
In 1968, when Rockefeller was re-elected to his second term as governor, Mrs. Troxell was the unsuccessful candidate for state treasurer. She was defeated by the Democratic incumbent Nancy J. Hall (1904–1991). Troxell polled 218,804 votes (37.4 percent) to Hall's 365,540 (62.6 percent). Troxell won five of the seventy-five Arkansas counties: Searcy, Baxter, Benton, Carroll, and Washington counties, but she did not prevail in her own White County. Hall, the wife of the late Secretary of State C.G. "Crip" Hall, was first elected treasurer in 1962 and served until 1981. Mrs. Hall was also the first woman ever elected to statewide constitutional office in Arkansas.
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