Marvin T. Culpepper

Marvin Tandy Culpepper, Sr. (November 26, 1908 - January 31, 1970), was an engineer, machinist, and farmer from Jackson Parish in North Louisiana, who served from 1964 to 1968 as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. His one term in office coincided with the first term of Governor John McKeithen. He was defeated for reelection by his fellow Democrat E. L. "Bubba" Henry, who in his second term in the chamber became the House Speaker.^[1]

A native of Jonesboro, the parish seat of Jackson Parish, Culpepper was the son of the former Julia Catherine Reed (1878-1950) and William Franklin Culpepper (1871-1962). He held a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, degree-granting institution unavailable. During World War II, Culpepper worked in radar stationed in Belmar in Monmouth County in eastern New Jersey. He and his wife, the former Ezelle O. Fleming (1914-1999), married in 1938 in Shreveport. The couple had three sons, Marvin Tandy Culpepper, Jr. (born April 1940) of Monroe, Louisiana and Mark Alan Culpepper (born June 1946) and John Fleming Culpepper (born 1951), both of Jonesboro, and a daughter, Kathy Belle Culpepper. Mrs. Culpepper said that her husband had such mechanical ability that he "could make anything".^[2]

Culpepper died in Hodge north of Jonesboro in 1970 at the age of sixty-one. Marvin and Ezelle Culpepper are interred at Springhill Cemetery in Jonesboro.^[2]

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