Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar in the United States

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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-93), United States Supreme Court justice, appointed to the Court by President Grover Cleveland (1885-89, 1893-97). Lamar was born near Eatonton, Georgia, and educated at Emory College. From 1850 to 1852 he was a professor of mathematics at the University of Mississippi, and from 1857 to 1860 he was a U.S. representative from Mississippi. He drafted the Mississippi ordinance of secession and was a member of the state convention that passed the ordinance in 1861. During the American Civil War he served as a lieutenant colonel of the first Confederate regiment organized in Mississippi, and from 1864 until the close of the war he was a judge advocate of the military court of the Third Confederate Army Corps. From 1866 to 1870 he was successively professor of logic and metaphysics and professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He served again in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1873 until 1877 when he became a U.S. senator. Lamar was in the Senate until 1885 when he was appointed secretary of the interior by President Grover Cleveland, who later named him an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.” (1)

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