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Name
  
Robert Sumwalt


Role
  
Entrepreneur

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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.

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Biography

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

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

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

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

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

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Robert L. Sumwalt (entrepreneur) Wikipedia