[1] Cuthbert Joseph Obwangor was born in Kiiya Village, Omasia Parish, Katakwi District, Eastern Region, Uganda on 1 November 1920.
[1] During the Apollo Milton Obote regime, Obwangor served in numerous ministerial positions as a part of his cabinet.
When Apollo Milton Obote succeeded Benedicto Kiwanuka, Apollo Milton Obote appointed Obwangor to be Minister of Regional Affairs, which briefly assumed the responsibilities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
That role assumed some of the other responsibilities of the Minister of Interior such as leading the Ugandan National Police Force.
Mr. Obwangor suggested that the principle of collective responsibility between the Cabinet Ministers and the President should be held to.
[17]After this disagreement and pushback upon Apollo Milton Obote's assumption of additional powers, Obwangor was fired from his role as Minister of Commerce and Industry of Uganda.
[19] Despite this, Obwangor along with Benedicto Kiwanuka, Paul Ssemogerere, Mathias Ngobi, and others were arrested, allegedly on the orders of Basil Kiiza Bataringaya and Felix Kenyi Onama.
In 1984, Obwangor founded the Nationalist Liberal Party alongside Tiberio Okeny Atwoma, Anthony Ochaya, and Francis Bwengye.
Between 1986 and 1990 during the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency, many members of the afflicted areas fled to the more stable town of Soroti, Obwangor's hometown.
This led Obwangor to help establish a school for displaced children at Moru Apesur in Soroti Town.
He died at his daughter's, Angela Margaret Itinot's home, in Omodoi, Soroti, Uganda.
Members of the Uganda People's Congress fought with members of the National Resistance Movement at the funeral in Katakwi over who should speak, with the National Resistance Movement claiming the Uganda People's Congress neglected Obwangor in his time of need and therefore MP Olara Otunnu, a leader of the Uganda People's Congress, should be forbidden from speaking, something that resulted in brawls at the funeral until Otunnu was allowed to address the funeral.
It has generally performed the best in sports and during inspections.He built his home, the Alakara House on Obwangor Road Soroti, Uganda in 1968.