Bio: Andrew Jackson Tullos; Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000





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Andrew Jackson Tullos, director, officer and general manager of the
Hodges-Tullos Hotel Company, is one of the youngest hotel executives in the
South, and has distinguished himself by genuine genius in this peculiarly
difficult and responsible field and profession.

He was born at Shreveport, April 27, 1893, son of Sidney Washington and Mary
(Reynolds) Tullos, natives of Minden, Louisiana.  His father is a surviving
veteran of the Civil war, and represents a flue old southern family.  There
were seven children, all born at Shreveport except the daughter, Margaret. 
The others, besides Andrew Jackson, were:  Mrs. Sunshine Tullos Burns,
deceased;  Hazel Tullos Parker, of Lufkin, Texas;  Miss Lucille Tullos,
deceased;  Mrs. Ruth Tullos Gillispie, and  John Tullos, twin brother of Ruth,
who died in infancy.

Andrew Jackson Tullos was educated at Shreveport in grammar and high schools,
and since early youth has been identified with the hotel business.  In ten
years he has made for himself a notable reputation as a practical hotel man as
general manager of the Hodges-Tullos Hotel Company.  He is interested in the
Hotel Youree, Shreveport s largest and most beautiful hotel, built at an
expense of over one million dollars, and he also acts as general manager of
the Inn, the Tullos and the Jefferson hotels and the Angeline Hotel at Lufkin,
Texas.

Mr. Tullos is member of the various branches of the Masonic Order, belongs to
the Shreveport City Club, Shreveport Country Club and Shreveport Rotary Club. 
He represents a happy combination of business efficiency and social
companionship.  His church associations are Presbyterian.

He married, September 23, 1914, Miss Thelma King, daughter of Dr. N. King and
Mrs. Maggie D. Stewart, of Shreveport.  She was born at El Paso, Texas, where
her parents lived for some years.  Mr. and Mrs. Tullos have one small
daughter,  Peggy Dean Tullos, born July 15, 1924, at Shreveport.

NOTE:  The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the
subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 267-268, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York,
1925.