[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 123 (Monday, July 30, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H8841]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               FRANK G. LUMPKIN, JR. POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform be discharged from further 
consideration of the bill (H.R. 2309) to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 3916 Milgen Road in Columbus, 
Georgia, as the ``Frank G. Lumpkin, Jr. Post Office Building,'' and ask 
for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Illinois?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the bill, as follows

                               H.R. 2309

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. FRANK G. LUMPKIN, JR. POST OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 3916 Milgen Road in Columbus, Georgia, 
     shall be known and designated as the ``Frank G. Lumpkin, Jr. 
     Post Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Frank G. Lumpkin, Jr. Post Office 
     Building''.

  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, Frank Lumpkin, Jr. was born in 
Columbus on September 5, 1907. He was reared in Columbus, attended the 
16th Street, now Woodall Elementary, School and Columbus High School, 
graduating from Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia, in 
1925. He was the first college football player from the University of 
Georgia to turn professional by joining the Philadelphia Eagles in 
1933.
  Mr. Lumpkin was stationed at the Pentagon during World War II. He 
developed an ordinance distribution plan that the British government 
said, ``shortened the war by months.'' Mr. Lumpkin later served under 
General George Patton in Europe as a Lieutenant Colonel in the 709th 
Tank Battalion.
  Mr. Lumpkin was President of Willcox-Lumpkin Company an insurance 
agency founded by his grandfather, D. F. Willcox, in 1848, where he 
built his family's business into an internationally known firm that 
traded to 18 countries.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague Representative Lynn Westmoreland 
for introducing this legislation and I urge the swift passage of this 
bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read 
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the 
table.

                          ____________________