LUMPKIN
LUMPKIN
John and Lucy (Hopson) Lumpkin, and of Henry
Pope of Oglethorpe county, Ga. He was reared
on his father's farm, and assisted John Lan-
drum, clerk of court of Oglethorpe county for
one year. He attended Franklin college, Uni-
versity of Georgia, 1829-30, Yale college, 1830-32,
when an epidemic of yellow fever broke up the
class and he returned to Georgia. He served as
secretary on the staff of his uncle. Gov. Wilson
Lumpkin, 1832-33, and studied law with his
uncle, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, 1833-34. He was
admitted to the bar in March, 1834, and settled
in practice at Rome, Floyd county, Ga. He was
a representative in the state legislature in 1835,
where he secured an appropriation of $10,000 to
build academies in the Cherokee country. He
was solicitor-general of the Cherokee circuit,
1839-42; Democratic representative in the 28th,
29th and 30th congresses, 1843-49, and in the 34th
congress, 1855-57; and judge of the Cherokee
circuit court, 1849-52. He was the Democratic
candidate for governor in 1857, but was defeated
by Joseph E. Brown. He was appointed a dele-
gate to the Southern Commercial convention at
Montgomery, Ala., in 1858, by Governor Brown,
and was a delegate at large to the Democratic
national convention held at Charleston, S. C,
April 23, and at Richmond, June 21, 1860, and to
the state Democratic convention in June, 1860.
He was married in February, 1836, to Martha
Antoinette, daughter of Robert M'Combs, of Mil-
ledgeville, Ga. She died in September, 1838, leav-
ing one son. He married secondly in May, 1840,
Mary Jane, daughter of Thomas Crutchfield, of
Athens, Ga. He died at Rome, Ga., June 6, 1860.
LUMPKIN, Joseph Henry, jurist, was born
in Oglethorpe county, Ga., Dec. 23, 1799; son of
John and Lucy (Hopson) Lumpkin, natives of
Virginia, who settled in Oglethorpe when the
country was a wilderness; and a descendant of
English settlers in Virginia. He entered the
junior class at Nassau Hall, College of New Jer-
sey, in 1817, and was graduated in 1819. He
studied law at Athens, Ga., under Judge Cobb,
was admitted to the bar in October, 1820, and
practised at Lexington, Ga., for nearly twenty-
four years. He represented Oglethorpe county
in the Georgia legislature in 1824 and 1825. He
visited Europe, 1844-45, and in 1845, during his
absence, he was elected chief justice of the newly
organized supreme court for the correction of
errors, which office he held until his death. He
organized the Phi Kappa society at the University
of Georgia about 1819-20, declined the professor-
ship of rhetoric and oratory there in 1846, and by
his exertions and those of Gen. T. R. R. Cobb,
and W. H. Hull, established the Lumpkin law
school as the law department of the University
of Georgia in 1859, the school being named in his
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honor. He was the first to occupy the chair of
law at the University of Georgia, 1859-61. The
civil war closed the school, 1861-65, and he re-
sumed the chair in 1865. He dw^lined a seat on
the bench of the U.S. court of claima offered him
by President Pierce
in 1855, and the chan-
cellorship of the Uni-
versity of Georgia in
1860. He was an ad-
vocate of temperance
and worked zealously
for the reform. He
received the honorary
degree of A.M. from
the University of T\.v^gs^^se?-3^Biaig ^^WB^^a Georgia in 1823, and that of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1851, and ^^^^^/JU^ was a trustee of the ^ ^ — —
University of Geor- gia, 1854-67. He was one of the compilers of the penal code of Georgia in 1833. He mar- ried Calender Grieve, a Scotch lady, who survived him with the following children: Wil- loughby W., James, Frank, Joseph Henry, Lucy, who married Dr. Gerdine, Marion McHenry, who married Gen. Thomas R. R. Cobb (q.v.); Calender, who married the Hon. Porter King, of Alabama, and became the mother of the Hon. Porter King, a prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga. Judge Lumpkin died in Athens, Ga., June 4, 1867.
LUflPKIN, Samuel, jurist, was born near Lexington, Ogletliorpe county, Ga., Dec. 12, 1848; son of Joseph Henry (Junior) and Sarah (Johnson) Lumpkin; grandson of Samuel and Lucy (Deupree) Lumpkin, and great-grandson of John and Lucy (Hopson) Lumpkin. Samuel Lumpkin, the grandfather, was a brother of Wilson Lumpkin, governor of Georgia and U.S. senator, and of Joseph Henry Lumpkin, Senior, chief justice of Georgia. He was graduated at the University of Georgia, A.B., 1866, A.M., 1869: was admitted to the bar in 1868; was solicitor-general of the northern judicial circuit of Georgia, 1872-76; state senator, 1878-80; judge of the superior court, northern judicial circuit, 1885-90; and on Jan. 1, 1891, became associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia, having been elected to that office in October, 1890. On Jan. 4, 1897, was appointed presiding justice of the 2d division of that court. He was married on Oct. 17, 1878, to Kate, daughter of Col. Walker Richardson of Alabama, and grand- daughter of Col. Adolphus M. Sanford of that state. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Southwestern Baptist university, Jackson, Tenn., in June, 1891.
