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Lamar (LUCIUS QUINTUS CINin Putnam co)

LUCIUS QUINTUS CINin Putnam co., Ga., Sept. 1, 1825. Ad- CINNATUS, an American jurist; born mitted to the bar in 1847, he served two terms as congressman from Mississippi ( 1856-1860). In 1861, after taking part n the secession convention of Mississippi, he entered the Confederate army and achieved distinction. After the war he was Professor of Political Economy and Law Professor in the University of Miss- , and afterward served in both Houses of Congress, where he showed strong friendship for the North. In 1885 Secretary of the Interior, and in 1887 became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Died in Macon, Ga., Jan. 24, 1893. of the republic of Texas; born in Louis-