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When Rev Melvin Horace Purvis III was born on 14 December 1939, in Timmonsville, Florence, South Carolina, United States, his father, Melvin Horace Purvis II, was 36 and his mother, Marie Rosanne Wilcox, was 31.
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
Oct 21, 1986 · Melvin Horace Purvis 3d, a nondenominational minister who lost to Strom Thurmond in the 1984 race for the United States Senate in South Carolina, died Saturday of an apparent heart attack.
Sep 26, 2021 · FLORENCE, S.C. — Melvin Horace Purvis III, a non-denominational minister who lost to Strom Thurmond in a U.S. Senate race in 1984, has died of an apparent heart attack at age 46.
Reverend Melvin Horace Purvis III, a non-denominational minister who lost to Strom Thurmond in a U.S. Senate race in 1984 has passed away from a heart attack at age 46. Rev. Purvis, who died Saturday, Oct 18 1986, ran as a Democrat against the Republican incumbent and gained fewer than half the votes Thurmond claimed.
Mar 9, 2020 · Purvis led manhunts for Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd before resigning from the agency in 1935. He served in Army Intelligence during World War II, rising to the rank of colonel, and helped compile evidence against Nazi leadership for the Nuremberg Trials.
Melvin Horace PURVIS, Jr., b. 24 Oct 1903, Timmonsville, South Carolina , d. 29 Feb 1960, at his residence, 1356 Cherokee Road, Florence, South Carolina (Age 56 years) Mother
