Floyd D. Culbertson, Jr.

Floyd Douglas Culbertson, Jr. (born ca. 1910), served from 1940-1942 as the mayor of Minden, a small city in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

Culbertson graduated in 1927 from Minden High School.He became an attorney.

While barely thirty, Culbertson unseated Mayor David William Thomas, who finished third in the 1940 Democratic mayoral primary. Thomas thereafter unsuccessfully challenged Culbertson in 1942, when the mayoral terms were for two years but were expanded to four by 1958. Soon after his reelection, Culbertson ran unsuccessfully in The Primary for district attorney of the 26th Judicial District held on September 22, 1942. The position was decided in a runoff in which Arthur M. Wallace defeated Minden attorney Graydon K. Kitchens, Sr., an Arkansas native who was a former law partner of future Governor Robert F. Kennon. Ironically, Kennon himself had served as mayor of Minden during the middle 1920s.

In a surprising turn of events, Culbertson resigned as mayor in November 1942 to enter the United States Army. for service as a first lieutenant in World War II. His initial training was at Camp Wallace in Galveston County, Texas. J.C. Brown, a member of the Minden City Council, served as mayor pro tem for the remainder of Culbertson’s term until the spring of 1944, when J. Frank Colbert (1882-1949), a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, was elected to the position.

In 1958, when Culbertson’s father, Floyd Culbertson, Sr., died, the newspaper obituary listed Floyd Culbertson, Jr., as residing in Fort Worth, Texas. The obituary lists four other surviving children, John Grier Culbertson (1905-1977), then of Arlington, Texas, R.S. Culbertson of Minden, James Edward "Jim" Culbertson of Dallas, and Mrs. George E. Reynolds of Fayetteville, North Carolina.

No other reference to Floyd Culbertson, Jr., has yet been found after September 1958.