Anson County, NC - William Leake Terry, 1850-1917

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Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth 
Century.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography
page 921

TERRY, WILLIAM LEAKE, soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 27, 
1850, in Anson County, N. C. He was elected to the city council of 
Little Rock, Ark., in 1877; was elected to the state senate in 1878, 
and was elected president of the senate at the close of the session in 
1879. He served eight terms as City Attorney of Little Rock; and was 
elected to the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth 
Congresses as a Democrat.

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
Biographies
page 1906

TERRY, William Leake (father of David Dickson Terry), a Representative 
from Arkansas; born near Wadesboro, Anson County, N.C., September 27, 
1850; moved with his parents to Tippah County, Miss., in 1857 and to 
Pulaski County, Ark., in 1861; attended Bingham's Military Academy, 
North Carolina, and was graduated from Trinity College, North Carolina, 
in June 1872; studied law; was admitted to the bar in November 1873 and 
practiced; member of the city council 1877-1879; member of the State 
senate in 1878 and 1879, serving as President of the senate in the 
session of 1879; city attorney of Little Rock, Ark., 1879-1885; 
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress; 
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second and to the four succeeding 
Congresses (March 4, [p.1906] 1891-March 3, 1901); unsuccessful 
candidate for renomination in 1900; resumed the practice of law in 
Little Rock, Ark., and died there November 4, 1917; interment in 
Calvary Cemetery.