Sam Lumpkin

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= Sam Lumpkin

|image= Sam Lumpkin.jpg

|order1= 21st

|office1= Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

|governor1= Fielding Wright

|term_start1= January 19, 1948

|term_end1= January 21, 1952

|predecessor1=Fielding Wright

|successor1=Carroll Gartin

|order2=55th Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives

|term_start2=January 2, 1940

|term_end2=January 4, 1944

|preceded2=Fielding Wright

|succeeded2=Walter Sillers Jr.

|order3=Member of the
Mississippi House of Representatives
from Lee County

|term_start3=January 5, 1932

|term_end3=January 4, 1944

|preceded3=David C. Langston

|succeeded3=H. A. Boren

|birth_name= Samuel Edgerton Lumpkin

|birth_date= {{birth date|1908|4|21}}

|birth_place= Hudsonville, Mississippi, U.S.

|death_date={{Death date and age|1964|7|9|1908|4|21}}

|death_place=Tupelo, Mississippi, U.S.

|spouse=

|profession=Lawyer

|party= Democratic

|alma_mater=Cumberland University

|footnotes=

|allegiance=United States

|branch=United States Army

|serviceyears=1942–1944

|battles=World War II

}}

Samuel Edgerton Lumpkin{{cite book|title=The National cyclopaedia of American biography|author=White, J.T.|date=1898|publisher=J.T. White|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oPkpAQAAMAAJ|access-date=2015-01-04}} (April 21, 1908 – July 9, 1964) was an American politician from Tupelo, Mississippi.{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html |title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Ludlum to Lunceford |author=Lawrence Kestenbaum|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|access-date=2015-01-04}} A Democrat, he served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1948 to 1952 under Governor Fielding L. Wright. He was born in Hudsonville in 1908.{{cite book|title=American Legislative Leaders in the South, 1911-1994|author1=Sharp, J.R.|author2=Sharp, N.W.|date=1999|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=9780313302138|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1d3AAAAMAAJ|access-date=2015-01-04}}

Before elevation to Lt. Governor he served in the Mississippi House of Representatives, eventually rising to position of the Speaker of the House in 1940.Jere Nash, Andy Taggart, Mississippi Politics, The Struggle for Power, 1976–2006, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2006, page 195

He was also a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention and was an unsuccessful candidate for Democratic nomination for governor in 1951.[http://dm.olemiss.edu/archives/guides/politics20and21.html University of Mississippi Libraries – Special Collections]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

During the 1952 presidential election he endorsed Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and led so-called "eisencrats" faction in Mississippi.{{cite journal |jstor=2127012|last1=Strong|first1=Donald S.|title=The Presidential Election in the South, 1952|journal=The Journal of Politics|year=1955|volume=17|issue=3|pages=343–389|doi=10.1017/S0022381600091064|s2cid=154634842}}

Lumpkin was found dead of a heart attack at his home's pool in 1964."Sam Lumpkin Dies At Home In Tupelo", The Delta Democrat-Times,, Friday, July 10, 1964, Greenville, Mississippi, United States Of America