Alva M. Lumpkin

Alva Moore Lumpkin
United States Senator from South Carolina
In office July 22, 1941 – August 1, 1941
Preceded by	James F. Byrnes
Succeeded by	Roger C. Peace
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina
In office July 19, 1939 – July 17, 1941
Appointed by	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by	J. Lyles Glenn
Succeeded by	George Bell Timmerman, Sr.
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina
In office July 19, 1939 – July 17, 1941
Appointed by	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Preceded by	J. Lyles Glenn
Succeeded by	George Bell Timmerman, Sr.
Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court Acting
In office 1926 – 1934
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Richland County
In office January 14, 1913 – November 3, 1914
Personal details
Born	November 13, 1886 Milledgeville, Georgia
Died	August 1, 1941 (aged 54) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic

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 towns. Two of Lumpkin's younger sisters writers: Grace Lumpkin, a novelist, and Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, a sociologist. He graduated from the law department of the University of South Carolina, 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 he was an acting associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court from 1926 to 1934.

On May 17, 1939, Lumpkin was nominated by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of South Carolina, to a seat vacated by J. Lyles Glenn. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 22, 1939, and received his commission on July 19, 1939. He resigned from the court when he 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. He started his service in the Senate on July 22, 1941, but he died only 10 days later in Washington, D.C., at the age of 54. Lumpkin was interred in Elmwood Cemetery, Columbia.

References

• United States Congress. "Alva M. Lumpkin (id: L000510)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

• Alva M. Lumpkin at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.