Background
Oldham, Lemuel E. was born on February 8, 1870 in Kosciusko, Attala Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Emmett Charles and Malvina Murphy (Doty) Oldham.
Oldham, Lemuel E. was born on February 8, 1870 in Kosciusko, Attala Company, Mississippi, United States. Son of Emmett Charles and Malvina Murphy (Doty) Oldham.
Educated University of Mississippi and Eastman College Poughkeepsie, New New York Studied law in office of the United States District Judge H. C. Niles, 1903-1906.
Clerk United States Circuit Court, Northern District of Mississippi, 1903-1912, and of the United States District Court, same district, 1905-1918. United States commissioner, 1906-1917. United State Attorneys, Northern District of Mississippi, by appointment of President Harding, since June 23, 1921.
Member of law firm of Stone, Oldham, Stone & Stone.
Major aide-de-camp Governor's Staff, Mississippi National Guard, 1912-1916. Delegate Republican National Convention, 1920.
Member Republican National Advisory Committee, 1920. Member Mississippi State Republican Committee.
Member of law firm of Stone, Oldham, Stone & Stone. Major aide-de-camp Governor's Staff, Mississippi National Guard, 1912-1916. Member Republican National Advisory Committee, 1920.
Member Mississippi State Republican Committee.
Member American, Mission State and Lafayette County bar associations, Mississippi History Society, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Married Lida Corinne Allen, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, June 27, 1895. Children: Estelle (wife of Judge C. South. Franklin), Victoria (deceased, wife of Paul F. Allen, United States of America), Dorothy Zollecoffer, Edward de Graffenried (deceased).