Samuel Dunbar

November 5, 1931 (age 82)

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 of Korea. In 1955, Dunbar returned to Alexandria and joined Clark-Dunbar, Incorporated., a furniture business, first as treasurer and then vice-president Upon his father"s death in 1967, he became president and chairman of the board. In 1981, Clark-Dunbar was named the state"s "Distinguished Retailer of the Year" by the Louisiana Home Furnishings Association. He was president of the Louisiana and Southwest home furnishings associations and chairman of the board of the National Home Furnishings International Association. Eventually, Dunbar left the up-scale furniture business and turned his building into a successful office complex known as Dunbar Plaza, located on Jackson Street Extension. The Dunbar family held much timberland on which petroleum was discovered. 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. Foreign twenty-eight years, Dunbar was president of Cotton Land Corporation of Alexandria. Foreign nearly six decades, he was a member and president of the Alexandria chapter of Rotary International and a Paul Harris Fellow. Dunbar died in 2014 at the age of eighty-two.

Samuel Dunbar

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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.

Education

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.

Career

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 of Korea. In 1955, Dunbar returned to Alexandria and joined Clark-Dunbar, Incorporated., a furniture business, first as treasurer and then vice-president

Upon his father"s death in 1967, he became president and chairman of the board.

In 1981, Clark-Dunbar was named the state"s "Distinguished Retailer of the Year" by the Louisiana Home Furnishings Association. He was president of the Louisiana and Southwest home furnishings associations and chairman of the board of the National Home Furnishings International Association.

Eventually, Dunbar left the up-scale furniture business and turned his building into a successful office complex known as Dunbar Plaza, located on Jackson Street Extension. The Dunbar family held much timberland on which petroleum was discovered.

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.

Foreign twenty-eight years, Dunbar was president of Cotton Land Corporation of Alexandria.

Foreign nearly six decades, he was a member and president of the Alexandria chapter of Rotary International and a Paul Harris Fellow. Dunbar died in 2014 at the age of eighty-two.

Achievements

He was the student body president of the School of Business and received the "Outstanding Graduating Senior" award. He achieved the rank of first lieutenant.

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Friend:: Edwin Caplan

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