Education
He attended medical school and established a practice in Gadsden, Alabama.
He attended medical school and established a practice in Gadsden, Alabama.
Ralls was born in Greensboro, Georgia, on New Years Day, 1822. They would eventually have eight children. He represented Cherokee County, Alabama as a delegate to the Alabama secession convention in early 1861.
He represented the state in the First Confederate Congress from 1862-1864.
Following the war, he was a delegate to the Alabama state constitutional convention in 1875. He was elected to the Alabama State Legislature in 1878.
Ralls was actively involved in the Methodist Church. He died in Gadsden, Alabama, on November 22, 1904, and was buried in Forrest Cemetery in Gadsden.