Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus

la-mar', Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (1825-1893), a noted American jurist. He was born in Putnam County, Georgia, September 1, 1825, and died at Macon, January 23, 1893. He was graduated from Emory College, Georgia, and was admitted to the bar at Macon in 1847. The outbreak of the Civil War found him in Congress as a representative of Mississippi. He resigned his seat. He drafted the ordinance of secession for Mississippi, and was lieutenant colonel of the first Confederate regiment enlisted in that state. At the close of the war he accepted a chair in the University of Mississippi, and was again sent to Congress. He was secretary of the interior during the first administration of Grover Cleveland. In 1888 he was appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, which position he held until his death. He was considered a man of integrity and of large views. Two of his best known addresses were eulogies on Charles Sumner and John C. Calhoun. The first of these is a landmark in the restoration of good feeling between North and South.