Luther Terry

Prior to his appointment by Pres. John F. Kennedy as surgeon general in 1961, Luther Terry held leading positions at the Public Health Service Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and at the Clinic of General Medicine and Experimental Therapeutics at the National Heart Institute (now the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute).

Portrait of Luther Terry, U.S. Surgeon General
Courtesy of University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives
Portrait of Luther Terry, U.S. Surgeon General