Rush Wimberly, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Rush Wimberly

American politician

Date of Birth: 30-Dec-1873

Place of Birth: Arcadia, Louisiana, United States

Date of Death: 11-Mar-1943

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Rush Wimberly

  • Joseph Rush Wimberly, I (December 30, 1873 – March 11, 1943), was at the turn of the 20th century successively a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature from Arcadia, the seat of Bienville Parish in North Louisiana.
  • He served two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1900 to 1908.
  • and a single term in the Louisiana State Senate from 1908 to 1912, representing Bienville and neighboring Claiborne parishes.
  • Wimberly served on the Education committees of both houses during his 12-year tenure.Wimberly was the youngest of eleven children of the former Francis Nix and John L.
  • Wimberly, a planter and a native of Georgia who migrated westward to Louisiana in 1840.
  • Rush Wimberly graduated from Arcadia High School, an entity of the Bienville Parish School Board.
  • Having privately thereafter studied the law, he was admitted to the bar in 1894.
  • After his legislative years, Wimberly moved to Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where he formed the law firm, Wimberly, Reeves and Dorman.
  • He returned to Arcadia and for ten years was the parish attorney for Bienville Parish and for a number of years the parish public school superintendent.Wimberly was an alternate delegate to the 1936 Democratic National Convention, which met in Philadelphia to renominate the Roosevelt-Garner ticket.In 1897, Wimberly married the former Annie May Poland (1877-1960), and the couple had three children.
  • The oldest, Lorris M.
  • Wimberly, served in the state House, including several stints as Speaker.
  • Lorris Wimberly was a political ally of his fellow Democrat, Governor Earl Kemp Long.
  • The other Wimberly children were J.
  • Rush Wimberly, Jr.
  • (1906-1982), an attorney, and Edrie W.
  • Albrecht (1902-1983), the wife of Henry Gustave Albrecht (1899-1945) of Arcadia.Wimberly and most of his family are interred at the Arcadia Cemetery.

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