Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II was an American politician, diplomat, and jurist and former Confederate soldier and official. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in both h
Lamar, 1870–1880
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
Profiles in Courage
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Profiles in Courage is a 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States senators. The book, authored by John F. Kennedy with Ted Sorensen as a ghostwr
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar
…but was reinterred at St. Peter's Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1894. Lamar was later featured in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Profiles in Courage (1957), for his eulogy for Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner (R) in 1874, along with his support of the findings of a partisan congressional committee…
First edition
Ted Sorensen, the ghostwriter of Profiles in Courage, was also John F. Kennedy's main speechwriter.