Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

1825–1893 · Eatonton, GA

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
Supreme Court of the United StatesAssociate JusticeGrover Cleveland (Democratic)Jan 16, 1888Death, Jan 23, 1893

Education

  • Emory College, B.A., 1845
  • Read law, 1847

Professional 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

Opinions on This Site

85 opinions from 1888 to 1892

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