Alva Moore Lumpkin

Judge Alva Moore Lumpkin

Personal

Birthday:

11/13/1886

Birthplace:

Milledgeville, GA

Date of Death:

8/1/1941

Place of Death:

Washington, DC

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

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

Education

Name of School:

University of South Carolina School of Law

Founded in 1867, the mission of the School of Law is to teach law through in-depth study; to contribute through faculty and student research to the common good, to the fund of legal knowledge, and to legal development and reform; and to cooperate with state government, the community, and the organized Bar in developing and implementing appropriate programs in legal research, law reform, criminal justice reform, and continuing legal education.

Degree:

LL.B.

Degree Year:

1908

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Eastern District of South Carolina

President Nominating:

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

7/19/1939

Termination Date:

7/22/1941

Termination Reason:

Resignation

Court Name - Second:

U. S. District Court, Western District of South Carolina

Court Name - Second:

South Carolina District Court

Commission Date - Second:

7/19/1939

Termination Date - Second:

7/22/1941

Termination Reason - Second:

Resignation