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Alva Moore Lumpkin

Former judge · U.S. District Court for the Western District of South Carolina

Alva Moore Lumpkin served on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of South Carolina. Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and confirmed May 22, 1939.

Appointed by
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Confirmed
May 22, 1939
Born
1886

Appointments

  • Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of South CarolinaFranklin D. Roosevelt · May 22, 1939 – Jul 22, 1941
  • Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of South CarolinaFranklin D. Roosevelt · May 22, 1939 – Jul 22, 1941

Education

  • University of South Carolina School of LawLL.B., 1908

Career

Private practice, Columbia, South Carolina, 1908-1939; Assistant clerk, South Carolina State Senate, 1906-1908; State representative, South Carolina, 1911-1913; Acting assistant attorney general, State of South Carolina, 1918; Acting associate justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina, 1926-1934; U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1941

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