D. C. Wimberly

Who was D. C. Wimberly?

Duvall Cortez Wimberly, Sr., was a United States Army soldier taken prisoner of war in the European theater of World War II and a past national commander of American Ex-Prisoners of War, a veterans organization based in Arlington, Texas. He was also an educator and school administrator for thirty-seven years in Bienville and Webster parishes in northwest Louisiana.

Wimberly was a cousin of Lorris M. Wimberly, a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Bienville Parish who also served on three occasions as Speaker of the House between 1936 and 1956. His brother, Lucian McDade "Dade" Wimberly, was a Louisiana state trooper from Minden, the seat of Webster Parish.