Aubrey M. Pyburn, Of Winn, Jackson and Caddo Prs. Louisiana
Contributed by Greggory E. Davies
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Winnfield, LA  71483
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Aubrey M. Pyburn


Professional success in the law and a large measure of public
usefulness are justly associated with the name of Aubrey M.
Pyburn, of Shreveport, Louisiana, a veteran of the World War, and
a United States assistant district attorney since March, 1922. 
He is a native of Louisiana, born at Gansville, in Winn Parish,
in 1893, son of D. M. and Margaret H. McBride Pyburn, the former
of whom, for many years a merchant and planter, died in 1919. 
The mother of Mr. Pyburn was born in Jackson Parish, Louisiana,
but comes of an old Mississippi family, of Scotch ancestry, her
great-great-grandfather being Capt. James McBride, who was a
captain of Virginia troops in the Revolutionary War.  Mr. Pyburn
was one of the charter members of the Galvez Chapter, Sons of the
American Revolution.

Aubrey M. Pyburn received his early educational training in the
public schools of Louisiana, then entered Vanderbilt University,
from which he was graduated with his Bachelor of Arts degree in
1914, received the Bachelor of Laws degree from Tulane University
in 1918, in the meanwhile serving in the United States Navy,
during the World War.  Upon returning to civil life Mr. Pyburn
took up the practice of law in Alexandria, in the office of Hon.
Robert C. Culpepper, who is now judge of the Thirteenth Judicial
District Court, Alexandria, Louisiana.  

In February, 1922, Mr. Pyburn came to Shreveport and opened an
office for the private practice of law, but in March of the same
year was appointed  first assistant United States district
attorney, under Hon. Phillip H. Mecom, United States district
attorney at Shreveport.  That this appointment was well deserved
is proved by the letter received by Mr. Pyburn from Mr. Mecom
when the former sent in his resignation in order to accept the
office of assistant district attorney for the First Judicial
District, composed of Caddo and Bossier parishes, January 1,
1925.  In part, the letter referred to is as follows:  "Since Mr.
Pyburn has been with me as first assistant he has rendered
unusually high class public service.  Our personal and official
relations have been most cordial and satisfactory, and I regret
very much to lose him.  He has proved himself to be a very
successful prosecuting attorney and has tried a number of
important and difficult cases."  Another tribute of appreciation
was contained in a letter to Mr. Pyburn from Hon. Rush L.
Holland, assistant attorney-general of the United States, at
Washington, who, in accepting Mr. Pyburn's resignation wrote: "I
with to take this opportunity to thank you for the efficient
services you have rendered the Government since your appointment,
and to wish you every success in your future undertaking."

Mr. Pyburn is a democrat in political belief.  He is a member of
the First Methodist Church at Shreveport, belongs to the Masonic
fraternity, to the City Club, to the American Legion and is vice
president of the Kiwanis Club.


(The above article was extracted from "A History of Louisiana",
by Henry E. Chambers, 1925 and submitted by Greggory Ellis
Davies, Winnfield, Winn Parish, La.)