Wiley W. Hilburn
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| Born | Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Jr. February 20, 1938 Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, USA |
| Died | January 16, 2014 (aged 75) Northern Louisiana Medical Center in Ruston |
| Resting place | Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston |
| Occupation | Journalist; professor |
| Nationality | American |
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| Period | 1962-2014 |
| Genre | Human interest essays |
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Wiley Wilson Hilburn, Jr. (February 20, 1938 – January 16, 2014), was a journalist in Ruston, Louisiana, whose communications career began in the middle 1950s when he was a student at Ruston High School and then Louisiana Tech University. In 1968, at the age of thirty, Hilburn returned to Louisiana Tech to chair the Journalism Department and serve as director of the college news bureau. Even while instructing budding journalists for some four decades, he continued to write a popular weekly column carried by Gannett in both the Shreveport Times and the Monroe News-Star. On September 1, 2009, Hilburn retired from the university position after forty-one years.
Hilburn was born in Ruston to Wiley Hilburn, Sr. (1913–2003), the son of a cotton gin operator, Ewing Hilburn, originally from Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish. Hilburn, Sr., managed his father's three cotton gins in the Ruston area and then branched into dry cleaning. He offered the first cold storage for furs in Ruston. Hilburn's mother, the former Marie Trussell (1912–2007), was an educator who was once the principal of a one-room school in her native Antioch community near Ruston. Wiley Hilburn himself attended the A.E. Phillips Laboratory School on the Louisiana Tech campus.
Wiley Hilburn, Sr., was the brother-in-law of Lieutenant Governor C. E. "Cap" Barham, an attorney from Ruston who served during the Robert F. Kennon administration from 1952 to 1956, the year that Hilburn, Jr., graduated from Ruston High School. Barham was married to the former Carice Helen Hilburn (1907-1965), the sister of Wiley Hilburn, Sr. Hence, Hilburn, Jr., was a first cousin of the Barhams' older son, the late Louisiana State Senator Charles Clem Barham, a Democrat from Ruston, who served from 1964 to 1972 and again from 1976 to 1988.
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