Alva M. Lumpkin

Alva Moore Lumpkin (November 13, 1886 - August 1, 1941) was a United States Senator for less than one month from South Carolina. Born in Milledgeville, Georgia, he moved with his parents to Columbia, South Carolina in 1898; he attended the public schools of both places. Two of Lumpkin's younger sisters would go on to become well-known writers: Grace Lumpkin, a novelist, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, a sociologist. He graduated from the law department of the University of South Carolina at Columbia, was admitted to the bar the same year, and commenced the practice of law in Columbia. He was assistant clerk of the South Carolina Senate from 1906 to 1908, and was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1911 to 1913. In 1914 he was a member of the Conciliation Commission for Advancement of Peace between the United States and Uruguay, and was acting assistant attorney general of South Carolina in 1918. In 1922 – 1923 he was a member of the state board of pardons and was acting associate justice of the State supreme court from 1926 to 1934.

From 1939 to 1941, Lumpkin was a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of South Carolina, and was appointed on July 17, 1941 as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Byrnes and served from July 22, 1941, until his death in Washington, D.C. in 1941. Interment was in Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia.

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