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Torchmark Announces Public Offering of $250 Million of Senior Notes

    MCKINNEY, Texas, June 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Torchmark
Corporation (NYSE: TMK) announced today that it is offering, subject to
market and other conditions, $250 million in aggregate principal amount of
senior notes that will mature in 2016.
    Banc of America Securities LLC is acting as sole book-running manager,
and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. are acting
as joint-lead managers.
    This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation
or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such state. The offering of securities may be made
only by means of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus
(collectively, the "Prospectus") which is part of a registration statement
that Torchmark Corporation filed with the SEC utilizing a "shelf"
registration process.
     Copies of the Prospectus can be obtained from:

     Banc of America Securities LLC
     Prospectus Department
     100 West 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
     New York, NY  10001
     800-294-1322

     HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
     452 Fifth Avenue
     New York, NY  10018
     212-525-4102

     J. P. Morgan Securities, Inc.
     270 Park Avenue, Floor 8
     New York, NY  10017
     Attn:  High Grade Syndicate
     212-834-4533
    Torchmark Corporation is a holding company specializing in life and
supplemental health insurance for "middle income" Americans marketed
through multiple distribution channels including direct response, and
exclusive and independent agencies.


SOURCE Torchmark Corporation




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    Joyce Lane, Vice President, Investor
    Relations of Torchmark Corporation, +1-972-569-3627, or fax,
    +1-972-569-3282, or jlane@torchmarkcorp.com