Lamar
Lamar names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Lamar MIRABEAU, 2d president 24
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MIRABEAU, 2d president 24. president of the republic of Texas; born in Louisborn in Louisville, Ga., Aug. 16, 1798. He founded a He founded a newspaper, devoted to State rights, called the "Columbus Inquirer," and, in 1835, and, in 1835, removed to Texas, then on the verge of took an revolution, in which he later an active part. He distinguished himself battle of San Jacinto. He afterat the Lerward became, successively, attorney-genzoneral and secretary of war to the new new republic. In 1836 he was elected vicerice president, and in 1838-1841 president. ente On the outbreak of the Mexican War, as some (1820 the p Birch and (182 he of LUCIUS Q. C. LAMAR Major-General, he served at the battle of tle Monterey under General Scott. He was operations against afterward employed in United States the Comanche Indians, and Costa Rica minister to Nicaragua and . He died in Richmond, Tex., Dec. 19, 1859.
Lamar LUCIUS QUINTUS CIN- UINTUS CIN- CINNATUS, an American an jurist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LUCIUS QUINTUS CIN- UINTUS CIN- CINNATUS, an American an jurist; born in Putnam co., Ga., Sept. 1, 1825. Adjurist; born mitted 1. 1825. Adto the bar in 1847, he served two terms as he served two congressman from Mississippi ( tom Mississimi 1856-1860). In 1861, after taking part the Eter taking part n secession convention of Mississippi, of Mississippi, he entered the Confederate army and ate army and achieved distinction. After the war he was ter the war he Professor of Political Economy and Economy and Law Professor in the University of Mississippi versity of Miss- , and afterward served in both serveća in both Houses of Congress, where he showed ere he showed strong friendship for the North. In 1885 The North In Secretary of the Interior, and in Interior, and in 1887 became an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Died in Boura Died in Macon, Ga., Jan. 24, 1893.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Both men were long dead when Collier's compiled these notes in 1921, and the outlines still stand. One detail has been tidied: Mirabeau Lamar fought at Monterrey in September 1846 under Zachary Taylor, not under Winfield Scott, whose campaign began at Veracruz the following spring. What has shifted most is emphasis rather than fact: Lamar is now remembered as much for the forced expulsion of the Cherokee from East Texas in 1839 and his wars on the Comanche as for the school-land endowments that earned him the title "father of Texas education," while L. Q. C. Lamar's reputation for "strong friendship for the North" was given a wide new audience when John F. Kennedy made his 1874 eulogy of Charles Sumner one of the chapters of Profiles in Courage (1956).
Written for this edition, 2026.