Oscar M. Corbin Jr.
American mayor (1918–2012)
Oscar M. Corbin Jr. (May 3, 1918 – May 8, 2012) was a former mayor of Fort Myers, Florida.
Early years
He was born on the Corbin farm near Nebo, Hopkins County, Kentucky, on May 3, 1918. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1940 with a B.S. in agriculture.
Military service
He was commissioned a 2d Lt. in the Army Air Corps on December 5, 1941, and he was assigned to an air gunnery instruction squadron at Buckingham Field near Fort Myers. By the end of World War II he was promoted to the rank of Major. After the war he served in the Air Force Reserves and retired as a Lt. Colonel.
Business
In 1946 when his service in World War II ended he returned to Western Kentucky where he taught vocational agriculture until he opened a feed store with his brother John in Providence, Kentucky.
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