Alva M. Lumpkin

Alva M. Lumpkin

Alva Moore Lumpkin (born November 13, 1886 in Milledgeville , Baldwin County , Georgia , †  August 1, 1941 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who briefed the state of South Carolina in the US -Senate represented.

Georgia-born Alva Lumpkin moved with his parents to South Carolina in 1898, where the family settled in the capital, Columbia . He attended the public schools there. He graduated from the University of South Carolina law school in 1908 , after which he was inducted into the bar and began practicing as a lawyer in Columbia. From 1906 to 1908 he served as the assistant clerk in the South Carolina Senate .

His own political career began in 1911 when he moved into the South Carolina House of Representatives , to which he was a member until 1913. The following year he served on a reconciliation commission between the United States and Uruguay . In 1918 he served briefly as the Assistant Attorney General of South Carolina; from 1922 to 1923 he served on the state's pardon committee. He eventually served as an associate judge on the South Carolina Supreme Court between 1926 and 1934.

On May 17, 1939, Lumpkin was nominated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a federal district court judge for the eastern and western districts of South Carolina. Five days later, the US Senate confirmed, after which he was able to take office on July 19 of the same year. He resigned as a judge on July 17, 1941, after he was appointed to succeed the resigned US Senator James F. Byrnes . Lumpkin took up his mandate in Washington, DC on July 22, but died a few days later on August 1, 1941. He was buried in Columbia.

Web links

• Alva M. Lumpkin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Alva M. Lumpkin in the database of Find a Grave (English)