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.[1]
He was born to engineer and academic Robert L. Sumwalt and Caroline Causey 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a MSci.[3][4] Sumwalt launched his engineering career at DuPont's offices in Camden, South Carolina. He later founded McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Co.[5] and later Sumwalt Construction Co. He retired from his position as President in 2003. [6]
On March 8, 1952 he married Joyce Mills[3][7] in Christ Church near the bride's home in Georgetown, Washington DC.[7] Elizabeth S. Clark and Robert L. Sumwalt III are their two children.[7]