Bobby Loyce Culpepper (July 26, 1941 - August 15, 2015) was a lawyer and Democratic politician from his native Jonesboro in Jackson Parish in North Louisiana. Biography Culpepper was one of seven children of Edward Chester Culpepper (1912-2005), a farmer, In 1959, Culpepper graduated as the valedictorian of Jonesboro-Hodge High School. He studied thereafter in Baton Rouge at Louisiana State University and the Louisiana State University Law Center, from which he graduated in January 1966. After law school, he was the clerk for Judge Albert Tate, Jr., then presiding over the Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit, based in Lake Charles. Thereafter, he entered the military police section of the United States Army as a first lieutenant. He was discharged in 1968 as a captain. He is interred at Transport Cemetery in Dodson in Winn Parish.
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