Robert L. Sumwalt (entrepreneur)

Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr. (29 December 1927 – 11 June 2016) was an American businessman who had a successful career as a general contractor, concentrating on commercial building. [1]

Biography

He was born on December 29, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina.[2]

In 1949, he graduated from the University of South Carolina,[3] where his father then headed the engineering school, and in 1950 from MIT with a MSci.[3][4]

He went to work for DuPont in Camden, SC; on March 8, 1952 he married Joyce Mills[3][5] (1934 - 2010).[5]

Elizabeth S. Clark and Robert L. Sumwalt III are their children surviving as of 2017.[5]

He was active in various building companies including McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co. in the 1970s (as Executive Vice-President)[6] and later Sumwalt Construction Co. (where in 2003 he had retired from the posts of president and treasurer).[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Obituary". Legacy.com. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Description" Archived 2012-07-07 at Archive.is of "Robert L. Sumwalt Jr. Baby Portrait", P.S. du Pont / Longwood Collection
  3. 1 2 3 "Miss Joyce Mills is Bride in Capital; Married to Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr., Ex-Student at MIT, in Georgetown" NYT, March 8, 1952
  4. ↑ MIT Giving
  5. 1 2 3 Dunbar Funerals and Cremations, "Mrs. Joyce Mills Sumwalt"
  6. ↑ EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORP. v. FEDERAL INS. CO.
  7. ↑ "Alumni Association to honor eight at Homecoming gala", Times: University of South Carolina, October 23, 2003, p. 2


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