Sam Lumpkin

Samuel Edgerton "Sam" Lumpkin (born April 21, 1908 in Hudsonville , Marshall County , Mississippi , †  July 9, 1964 in Tupelo , Mississippi) was an American politician . Between 1948 and 1952 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Mississippi.

Life

After graduating from Cumberland University in Tennessee with a law degree and admission to the bar, Sam Lumpkin began working in the profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1931 and 1942 he was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives , whose speaker he had been since 1940. In July 1948 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , on which President Harry S. Truman was nominated for re-election.

In 1947, Lumpkin was elected Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi alongside Fielding L. Wright . He held this office between 1948 and 1952. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . In 1951 he ran unsuccessfully in his party's gubernatorial election. In the presidential elections of 1952 he supported the then successful Dwight D. Eisenhower , who ran for the Republican Party , against the candidate of his party, Adlai Stevenson . He died of heart failure on July 9, 1964 at his home in Tupelo.

literature

• Newspaper article about the gubernatorial campaign of 1951

Web links

• Sam Lumpkin in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Sam Lumpkin at The Political Graveyard