Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr. (29 December 1927 – 11 June 2016) was an American entrepreneur and businessman who had a successful career as an engineer and general contractor, concentrating on commercial building. Biography He was born to engineer and academic Robert L. Sumwalt and Caroline Causey on December 29, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina."Description" of "Robert L. Sumwalt Jr. Baby Portrait", P.S. du Pont / Longwood Collection
In 1949, he graduated from the University of South Carolina,"Miss Joyce Mills is Bride in Capital; Married to Robert Llewellyn Sumwalt Jr., Ex-Student at MIT, in Georgetown" NYT, March 8, 1952 where his father then headed the engineering school, and in 1950 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a MSci.MIT Giving Sumwalt launched his engineering career at DuPont's offices in Camden, South Carolina. He later founded McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co.EPISCOPAL HOUSING CORP. v. FEDERAL INS. CO. and later Sumwalt Construction Co. He retired from his position as President in 2003. "Alumni Association to honor eight at Homecoming gala", Times: University of South Carolina, October 23, 2003, p. 2
On March 8, 1952 he married Joyce MillsDunbar Funerals and Cremations, "Mrs. Joyce Mills Sumwalt" in Christ Church near the bride's home in Georgetown, Washington DC. Elizabeth S. Clark and Robert L. Sumwalt III are their two children.
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