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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States · 1888
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar , Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (September 17, 1825 – January 23, 1893) was an American politician, diplomat, and jurist and former Confederate soldier and official. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in both houses of Congress, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Grover Cleveland, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Education
- Emory CollegeB.A., 1845
- Read law1847
Career
Private practice, Covington, Georgia, 1847-1849; President, University of Mississippi, 1849-1852; Professor, University of Mississippi, 1849-1852, 1855-1857, 1861, 1865-1870; Private practice, Oxford, Mississippi, 1849-1852, 1855-1857, 1865-1873; Private practice, Covington, Georgia, 1852-1853; State representative, Georgia, 1853; Private practice, Macon, Georgia, 1853-1855; U.S. representative from Mississippi, 1857-1860, 1873-1877; Confederate Army lieutenant colonel, Nineteenth Mississippi Regiment, 1861-1862; Special Confederate commissioner to Russia, 1862-1863; Confederate Army judge advocate, Third Army Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, 1863-1865; U.S. senator from Mississippi, 1877-1885; Secretary of the Interior, 1885-1888
Biography
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (September 17, 1825 – January 23, 1893) was an American politician, diplomat, and jurist and former Confederate soldier and official. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in both houses of Congress, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Grover Cleveland, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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