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associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Born:
Sept. 17, 1825, Putnam county, Ga., U.S.
Died:
Jan. 23, 1893, Vineland, Ga. (aged 67)

Lucius Q.C. Lamar (born Sept. 17, 1825, Putnam county, Ga., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1893, Vineland, Ga.) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–65) and later became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Lamar was admitted to the bar in Georgia in 1847 and was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1853). He moved to Mississippi in 1855 and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives the following year, serving until December 1860, when he resigned to participate in the Mississippi secession convention. He was the ...(100 of 206 words)

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