1925 Biography - T. L. Hood

T. L. Hood. In the public life of the state, T. L. Hood is best known through his long service as a member of the State Senate. His home is at Monroe and for many years he has been closely identified with the lumbering industry and other substantial interests of Northern Louisiana. He is a physician by profession, and early training, but has not been in practice for many years.

His father, Whitfield Hood, was born in Georgia, and came to Louisiana in 1842, settling in Jackson Parish, where he became a farmer and lumber manufacturer. He was proprietor of Hood's Mill, in Jackson Parish, and it was in that locality that his son, T. L. Hood, was born January 1, 1864.

T. L. Hood gained a good literary education and his early ambition was for a medical career. He graduated Doctor of Medicine from the University of Louisville in 1886, and engaged in practice for about ten years. After 1895 he became a merchant, a business he followed for about fifteen years, and since then has been a lumber manufacturer and dealer. He owns or controls the output of a number of lumber mills.

Mr. Hood was first elected a member of the State Senate in 1912. He was re- elected in 1920 and in 1924. The Twenty-ninth Senatorial District, which elected him, was composed of Jackson and Ouachita parishes. Through his long legislative experience and proved business ability he has rendered a number of important services in the legislative program during the past ten years. He is chairman of the finance committee in the Senate and is a member of the committee on appropriations, committee on agriculture, committee on conservation and committee of health and quarantine. Senator Hood's offices in Monroe are in the Ouachita National Bank Building.

Mr. Hood married Miss Lura B. Hughley, of Dallas, Texas, and to them have been born seven children: Ruth, Mabel, Lillian, Thomas L. Jr., Ruby, Effie, and Amos.

Mr. Hood is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Methodist Church.

Contributed 2021 Nov 04 by Mike Miller, from A History of Louisiana, by Henry E. Chambers, published in 1925, volume 2, page 228.