Background
Teekell was born in rural Elmer in Rapides Parish.
Teekell was born in rural Elmer in Rapides Parish.
Reared in Glenmora in south Rapides Parish, Teekell graduated in 1948 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Foreign another Louisiana state representative, see Benjamin Milam Teekell. Thereafter from 1979 to 1990, he was a judge of the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court. At Louisiana State University, he was listed in Who"s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and was the vice-president of the student body and president of the student senate.
In 1951, Teekell obtained his law degree from the Louisiana State University Law Center.
Also in the class were later state Representatives George B. Holstead of Ruston and Risley C. Triche of Napoleonville. He remained in the House for seven years under Governors Robert F. Kennon and Earl Kemp Long
In 1975, Teekell attempted to return to the House in single-member District 26.
The one-term incumbent Ned Randolph bowed out to run successfully for the Louisiana State Senate against the veteran incumbent, Cecil R. Blair. Teekell faced a young Democratic attorney, later Republican convert, Jock Scott, in the first ever nonpartisan blanket primary held in Louisiana.
A son of United States District Judge Nauman Scott, Jock Scott polled 3,908 votes (547 percent) to Teekell"s 3,233 ballots (453 percent).
On May 3, 1978, Teekell was named president of the Alexandria Bar Association. The next year he joined the district court and served for eleven years until his retirement in 1990. Teekell operated a ranch near Boyce in north Rapides Parish.
Lloyd and Norma Teekell are interred at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville.
