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), of the state of South Carolina for a short time in the U.S. Senate represented.

Born in Georgia Alva Lumpkin moved with his parents in 1898 to South Carolina, where the family settled in the capital, Columbia. He attended the public schools. In 1908, he graduated from the Faculty of Law University of South Carolina, after which he was admitted to the bar and began to practice as a lawyer in Columbia. From 1906 to 1908 he acted as deputy senior administrative officials ( Assistant Clerk ) in the Senate of South Carolina.

His own political career began in 1911 with the entry into the House of Representatives from South Carolina, where he remained until 1913. The following year he was part of a reconciliation commission between the United States and Uruguay. In 1918 he officiated for a short time as deputy attorney general of South Carolina; 1922 to 1923 he worked with the parole board of the state. Finally, he sat 1926-1934 as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

On May 17, 1939 Lumpkin was nominated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern and Western District of South Carolina. Five days later, the confirmation was made by the U.S. Senate, after which he could take up his post on 19 July of the same year. He resigned on July 17, 1941 return as a judge after he had been appointed to succeed the retiring U.S. Senator James F. Byrnes. Lumpkin entered his office in Washington, D.C. on 22 July, but died a few days later on August 1, 1941. He was buried in Columbia.