Background
He was born in December 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina.
He was born in December 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a MSci.
He was active in various building companies including McCrory-Sumwalt Construction Company in the 1970s (as Executive Vice-President) and later Sumwalt Construction Company (where in 2003 he had retired from the posts of president and treasurer).