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LUCIUS Q. C.
LAMAR was born in Eatonton, Georgia, on September 17,
1825. He was graduated from Emory College in 1845 and
read law in Macon, Georgia. After his admission to the
bar in 1847, he moved to Oxford, Mississippi, to practice
law. In 1852, Lamar returned to Georgia, established a
law practice in Covington, and the next year won election
to the Georgia Legislature. He returned to Mississippi
in 1855, and in 1857 he was elected to the United States
House of Representatives. Lamar resigned from Congress
on the eve of the Civil War and served for two years as
an officer in the Confederate Army. For the last two years
of the War, Lamar served as a Judge Advocate for the Army
of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee. At the
end of the War, Lamar returned to Mississippi to practice
law. He received a pardon for his services to the Confederacy,
and in 1872 he was re-elected to the United States House
of Representatives. In 1877, he was elected to the United
States Senate. Lamar resigned from the Senate during his
second term to accept an appointment as Secretary of the
Interior. President Cleveland nominated Lamar to the Supreme
Court of the United States on December 6, 1887. The Senate
confirmed the appointment on January 16, 1888. Lamar served
five years on the Supreme Court and died on January 23,
1893, at the age of sixty-seven. |
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