Career
From 1948 to 1952, during the second administration of Governor Earl Kemp Long, he held one of the then four at-large seats in the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish, since under single-member districting. A native of Dodson in Winn Parish in North Louisiana, Pyburn was the youngest of nine children of Dennis Mackey Pyburn (1856-1918) and the former Maggie Helen McBride (1867-1956). His mother was a pioneer settler of north Louisiana, a Baptist, an education graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, and a resident of Ruston from 1925 until her death.
Pyburn graduated in 1932 from Louisiana Technical University in Ruston, his city of residence at the time, and in 1936 from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans.
From 1952 until his death, Pyburn had represented the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation in Washington, District of Columbia From 1937 to 1952, he was a partner in the Shreveport law firm of Pyburn, Smith and Giddens. He served in the United States Army during World World War II and was discharged with the rank of major.
Pyburn died of a brief illness at Saint Marys Hospital, a division of the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. His services were held at his former congregation, the First Methodist Church in Shreveport, with the then pastor Doctorate. L. Dykes officiating.
Interment was at Forest Park East Cemetery.
