Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II was a Confederate soldier, American politician, diplomat, and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in both houses of Congress, served as the United States Secretary of the Interior, and was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He also served as an official in the Confederate States of America.
Portrait of L.Q.C. Lamar (c. 1850–1860)
A page from Harper's Weekly showing the seceding Mississippi Delegation; Lamar is bottom-left.
Lamar in 1862 while in the Confederate Army
Joseph Rucker Lamar
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Joseph Rucker Lamar was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death in 1916.
