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===Early life===

===Early life===

Leona Troxell was born to Frank and Clara Anderson in Johnstown in Fulton County, New York.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arkansas.gov/esd/About/Legacy/Directors/Troxell.htm|title=Arkansas Department of Workforce Services|website=www.arkansas.gov|access-date=2018-11-01}}</ref> She was the dean of women at Drake University in [[Des Moines]], [[Iowa]], before she married Nolan Troxell (1904–1971) and moved to [[rural]] Rose Bud in White County, north of the state capital of [[Little Rock]]​

Leona Troxell was born to Frank and Clara Anderson in Johnstown in Fulton County, New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansas.gov/esd/About/Legacy/Directors/Troxell.htm|title=Arkansas Department of Workforce Services|website=www.arkansas.gov|accessdate=November 1, 2018}}</ref> She was the dean of women at Drake University in [[Des Moines]], [[Iowa]], before she married Nolan Troxell (1904–1971) and moved to [[rural]] Rose Bud in White County, north of the state capital of [[Little Rock]]​

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===Political career===

===Political career===

In 1968, when Rockefeller was re-elected to his second and last two-year term as governor, Troxell was the unsuccessful candidate for state treasurer. She was defeated by the [[Democratic Party|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, 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. Nancy Hall was also the first woman ever elected to statewide constitutional office in Arkansas.​

In 1968, when Rockefeller was re-elected to his second and last two-year term as governor, Troxell was the unsuccessful candidate for state treasurer. She was defeated by the [[Democratic Party|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, 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. Nancy Hall was also the first woman ever elected to statewide constitutional office in Arkansas.​

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In 1974, Troxell ran for lieutenant governor on the Republican gubernatorial ticket headed by the more [[conservative]] [[Ken Coon]]. First of Cave City in Sharp County in northern Arkansas, whose work led to a landmark change in state [[libel]] law.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/19/obituaries/joseph-h-weston-publisher-of-an-arkansas-newspaper.html|title=Joseph H. Weston, Publisher of an Arkansas Newspaper|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]'', November 19, 1983|accessdate=May 11, 2010 | date=November 19, 1983}}</ref>

In 1974, Troxell ran for lieutenant governor on the Republican gubernatorial ticket headed by the more [[conservative]] [[Ken Coon]]. First of Cave City in Sharp County in northern Arkansas, whose work led to a landmark change in state [[libel]] law.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/19/obituaries/joseph-h-weston-publisher-of-an-arkansas-newspaper.html|title=Joseph H. Weston, Publisher of an Arkansas Newspaper|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=November 19, 1983|accessdate=May 11, 2010}}</ref>

As the Republican nominee, Troxell pledged to bring "decorum" to the Arkansas State Senate, over which the lieutenant governor presides. However, she was handily defeated by the Democratic former state Attorney General Joe Purcell (1923–1987) of Benton in Saline County in a heavily Democratic year, Troxell received only 121,302 votes (23 percent) to Purcell's 406,040 (77 percent). She carried no counties in what turned out to have been her last venture on a ballot. Coon was defeated by David Hampton Pryor, but he ran some 65,000 votes ahead of ticket-mate Troxell. Purcell served as lieutenant governor until 1981. He ran in the primary in 1982 against then former Governor [[Bill Clinton]].​

As the Republican nominee, Troxell pledged to bring "decorum" to the Arkansas State Senate, over which the lieutenant governor presides. However, she was handily defeated by the Democratic former state Attorney General Joe Purcell (1923–1987) of Benton in Saline County in a heavily Democratic year, Troxell received only 121,302 votes (23 percent) to Purcell's 406,040 (77 percent). She carried no counties in what turned out to have been her last venture on a ballot. Coon was defeated by David Hampton Pryor, but he ran some 65,000 votes ahead of ticket-mate Troxell. Purcell served as lieutenant governor until 1981. He ran in the primary in 1982 against then former Governor [[Bill Clinton]].​

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===Death===​

===Death===​

Troxell died in a nursing home in Judsonia, Arkansas. She was survived by two [[nephew]]s, Karl Gustafson of Boulder, [[Colorado]] and Dick Gustafson of Oneonta, New York. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, her second husband, Russell Dodd, and a sister, Jeanette Gustafson (1919–1997). Services were held at the Rose Bud First Baptist Church. Interment was at Little Rock National Cemetery.​

Troxell died in a nursing home in Judsonia, Arkansas. She was survived by two [[nephew]]s, Karl Gustafson of Boulder, [[Colorado]] and Dick Gustafson of Oneonta, New York. She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, her second husband, Russell Dodd, and a sister, Jeanette Gustafson (1919–1997). Services were held at the Rose Bud First Baptist Church. Interment was at Little Rock National Cemetery.​

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