WIMBERLY, J. R., Bienville, then Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000



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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions, and
Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), p. 465.  Edited by Alc‚e
Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical Association.

Wimberly, J. Rush, of Shreveport, La., lawyer, and prominent in the politics
of the state, was born in Bienville parish, Dec. 30, 1873.  His father, John
L. Wimberly, a native of Georgia, came to Louisiana in 1840 when a child, with
William Wimberly, paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and
engaged in the planting business.  John L. Wimberly and wife died several
years ago, the former at the age of 66, and the latter in her 52nd year.  The
youngest of 11 children, J. Rush Wimberly was educated in the public schools
of his native place, and at the high school; next, at the E. A. seminary at
Arcadia, parish of Bienville, in north Louisiana.  Before beginning the study
of law, Mr. Wimberly occupied clerical positions with various business houses. 
He was a pupil of James A. Dornan and Ben P. Edwards, and was admitted to the
bar June 16, 1894, locating at Arcadia (where he still maintains an office). 
In Jan., 1913, he removed to Shreveport and formed a partnership with J. T.
Reeves of Arcadia and B. S. Dorman of Shreveport, under the firm of Wimberly,
Reeves & Dorman.  Always taking lively interest in public affairs, Mr.
Wimberly was elected to the legislature, serving from 1900 to 1908 as a member
of the house, and elected state senator in the latter year.  He was chairman
of the committee on education while representative, and also during his term
as senator.  For several years he was superintendent of schools of Bienville
parish, and for 10 years was parish attorney.  He is a member of the Masonic
order, and of the Woodmen of  the World.  In 1897 occurred the marriage of 
Mr. Wimberly and Miss Annie May Poland, daughter of William Poland, of
Louisiana.  The family consists of 3 children:  Loris,  Edrie and  J. Rush
Wimberly, Jr.