College of Law Class of 1935
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Class Year
1935
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Byron Hawthorne Pumphrey, A.B. '29, LL.B. '35
Lexington, Kentucky
Phi Delta Phi, Kentucky Law Journal
-The Kentuckian, 1935
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Byron Hawthorne Pumphrey (August 15, 1906 - April 3, 1990) was born in Grayson, Kentucky to George Pumphrey and Gaynelle Drake. Pumphrey worked as the managing editor of the Kentucky Kernel in the late 1920s. He moved to California in 1929 to work as a reporter and editor for the Santa Monica Evening Outlook. He returned to the University of Kentucky for law school and moved back to California after graduation. Pumphrey continued working at the Evening Outlook and later taught at the California Institute of Arts. His writing later turned to drama critique. Pumphrey is the author of five plays including Sadco and Trial by Venus. He married twice--his wives were Melvina Heavenridge (m. 1928, d. before 1939) and Pauline Kuplan (m. 1939, d. before 1989).
