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Dubberly is a village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 290 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area. Former Governor Robert F. Kennon was born in Dubberly in 1902 but reared in Minden. James Burton, a popular rock and roll/Country music guitarist, was born in Dubberly in 1939. Nicholas J. Sandlin, a farmer, lawyer, journalist, district attorney, Webster Parish police juror, state representative, postmaster, Confederate States Army officer and prisoner of war, lived on a plantation near Dubberly in the 1850s. Another state representative from Dubberly was Irvin Talton, who held the seat from 1880 to 1884 and was earlier a member of the Webster Parish Police Jury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Membership of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812 - Current: Webster Parish )〕 Robert L. Frye, the Republican nominee for state education superintendent in 1972, was a former principal at Dubberly High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert L. Frye )〕 Gene Reynolds, the current District 10 state representative, a Democrat, resides in Dubberly. Joe Butler (1924-2013), father-in-law of former Webster Parish Sheriff Larkin T. Riser, was the mayor of Dubberly for sixteen years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Joe Butler obituary )〕 State Representative J. S. Bacon of nearby Heflin, who served from 1926 to 1932, is interred at Fellowship Cemetery in Dubberly.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=J. S. Bacon )〕 ==SGT Joshua Tomlinson Interchange== On September 11, 2013, the Joshua B. Tomlinson Interchange at Interstate 20 and Louisiana State Highway 531 between Minden and Dubberly was dedicated in honor of United States Army sergeant Joshua Tomlinson, who was killed in the line of duty in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Tomlinson (born c. 1986) perished in a suicide bomb attack on May 18, 2010, while serving as part of a Personal Security Detail Detachment. He was based out of Kaiserslautern Germany in the 5th Battalion 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment. Representative Gene Reynolds of Dubberly, who had been Tomlinson's principal at Lakeside High School, guided the bill through the Louisiana House of Representatives to honor the young soldier. "He will always be that student, with a smile and character that we would like from all our children. We now honor () ... with this tribute that keep his memory alive forever," said Reynolds.〔Annie Andersen, "Freeway Interchange Dedicated to Fallen Soldier", KMSS-TV, September 11, 2013〕 Another interchange to the west on Interstate 20 at the Minden-Sibley exit is named for Iraq War hero, Army Sgt. Joshua B. Madden (1985-2006). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dubberly, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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