OVERVIEW:
FULL NAME:
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
BORN:
September 17, 1825
Eatonton, Georgia
DIED:
January 23, 1893 (age 67)
Vineville (now Macon), Georgia
EDUCATION:
Emory University (BA, 1845)
POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat
HIGHLIGHTS:
1847:
Admitted to the Bar
1849-1852
Moved to Oxford, Mississippi
Practiced Law
1852:
Moved to Covington, Georgia
1853-1854:
Member, Georgia House of Representatives
1857-1860:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-MS)
1860:
Became Member of the Secession Convention of Mississippi,
Dratted the Mississippi ordinance of secession
1861-1862:
Served in Confederate Army as Lieutenant Colonel
1865, 1868, 1877, 1881:
Member of Mississippi State Constitutional Conventions
1873-1877:
Member, U.S. House of Representatives (D-MS)
1877-1885:
U.S. Senator (D-MS)
1885-1888:
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
1888-1893:
Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
RESOURCES:
Biographical Directory of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives
Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
Congressional Quarterly
Supreme Court Historical Society
Oyez
Mississippi Historical Society
Mississippi Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
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