Samuel Dunbar

Samuel Ross Dunbar, Sr., known as Sammy Dunbar (November 5, 1931 - August 31, 2014), was a businessman, landowner, and civic figure in his native Alexandria, Louisiana.
Background
The son of Ita Davis (1897-1986) and Ross Hawkins Dunbar (1890-1967), he graduated second in his class in 1949 from Bolton High School in the Alexandria Garden District. In 1953, he was awarded with honors a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Tulane University in New Orleans, where he was president of Delta Sigma Pi, a business fraternity. He was the student body president of the School of Business and received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior" award. He was inducted into the Tulane Hall of Fame and Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities. Upon graduation from Tulane, he served two years in the United States Army with the occupation force in South Korea. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant.
In 1979, Dunbar was elected the youngest director of the former Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, housed in the tallest building on Third Street in downtown Alexandria. Subsequently, he was the city director of the former Hibernia National Bank. Guaranty merged in 1987 into Capital One; Hibernia did so as well in 2005. For twenty-eight years, Dunbar was president of Cotton Land Corporation of Alexandria.
The Dunbars are interred along with his parents at Greenwood Memorial Park in Pineville, Louisiana.<ref name=findagrave/>

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