Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

Lucius Q. C. Lamar
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
In office January 18, 1888 – January 23, 1893
Nominated by	Grover Cleveland
Preceded by	William Burnham Woods
Succeeded by	Howell Edmunds Jackson
16th United States Secretary of the Interior
In office March 6, 1885 – January 10, 1888
President	Grover Cleveland
Preceded by	Henry Teller
Succeeded by	William Vilas
United States Senator from Mississippi
In office March 4, 1877 – March 6, 1885
Preceded by	James Alcorn
Succeeded by	Edward Walthall
Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus
In office March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877
Speaker	Michael C. Kerr (1875–1876) Samuel J. Randall (1876–1877)
Preceded by	William E. Niblack
Succeeded by	Hiester Clymer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi's 1st district
In office March 4, 1873 – March 3, 1877
Preceded by	George Harris
Succeeded by	Henry Muldrow
In office March 4, 1857 – January 12, 1861
Preceded by	Daniel Wright
Succeeded by	George Harris (1870)
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives from Newton County
In office November 7, 1853 – February 17, 1854 Serving with P. Reynolds
Personal details
Born	(1825-09-17)September 17, 1825 Eatonton, Georgia, U.S.
Died	January 23, 1893(1893-01-23) (aged 67) Vineville, Georgia, U.S. (now Macon)
Resting place	St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi
Political party	Democratic
Parents	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar I (father) Sarah Bird (mother)
Education	Emory University (BA)
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Military service
Allegiance	Confederate States
Branch	Army
Rank	Colonel
Wars	American Civil War

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (September 17, 1825 – January 23, 1893) 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.

Born and educated in Georgia, he moved to Oxford, Mississippi, to establish a legal practice. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1856 and served until January 1861, when he helped draft Mississippi's Ordinance of Secession. He helped raise the 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment and worked on the staff of his wife's cousin, General James Longstreet. In 1862, Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed Lamar to the position of Special Confederate Commissioner to Russia. Following the Civil War, Lamar taught at the University of Mississippi and was a delegate to several state constitutional conventions.

Lamar returned to the United States House of Representatives in 1873, becoming the first Mississippi Democrat elected to the House since the end of the Civil War. He remained in the House until 1877, and represented Mississippi in the Senate from 1877 to 1885. He opposed Reconstruction and voting rights for African Americans.^[1][2] In 1885, he accepted appointment as Grover Cleveland's Secretary of the Interior. In 1888, the Senate confirmed Lamar's nomination to the Supreme Court, making Lamar the first Southerner appointed to the court since the Civil War. He remained on the court until his death in 1893.