Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II (1825 - 1893)

Born 17 Sep 1825 in Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Virginia Lafayette (Longstreet) Lamar — married 15 Jul 1847 in Eatonton, Putnam, Georgia, United States

Husband of Henrietta J (Dean) Lamar — married 5 Jan 1887 in Columbus, Muscogee, Georgia, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Jan 1893 at age 67 in Vineville, Bibb, Georgia, United States

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Preceded by Associate Justice William Burnham Woods Preceded by 15th Secretary Henry M. Teller Preceded by James L. Alcorn

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court 1888—1893 16th United States Secretary of the Interior 1885—1888 US Senator (Class 2) from Mississippi[1] 1877—1885

Succeeded by Associate Justice Howell Edmunds Jackson Succeeded by 17th Secretary William Freeman Vilas Succeeded by Edward C. Walthall

Lucius Lamar II is Notable.

Biography

Lucius Lamar II is Notable.

L.Q.C. Lamar is perhaps Mississippi’s most noted 19th century statesman. He was the first person, and one of only two in American history (the other was South Carolina’s James Byrnes in the 20th century), to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the President’s Cabinet (Secretary of the Interior for Grover Cleveland), and justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

His father was a lawyer, but committed suicide when Lucius was only nine years old. The man who became like a father to Lamar was Judge Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, who was a cousin of James Longstreet, one of General Robert E. Lee’s commanders in the Civil War. Judge Longstreet was the president of Emory College near Atlanta. Lamar became a lawyer and married Longstreet’s daughter, Virginia.^[2]

Lucius and Virginia appeared in the 1850 and 1880 censuses in Lafayette, Mississippi with their children: ^[3]

1. Frances Eliza, b. Jul 1848, m. Edward Mayes, d. 1923
2. Lucius Q. C. III, b. 26 Jan 1854, m1. Katherine Lester, m2. Atala Bache Nicholson, d. 09 Apr 1936
3. Augusta, b. 15 Aug 1860, m. Frederick Hugh Heiskell, d. 10 Feb 1926
4. Virginia Longstreet "Jennie," b. 1865, m. William Harmong LaMar, d. 12 Dec 1911

Virginia died in 1884 and Lucius appears to have married second on 05 Jan 1887 in Bibb County, Georgia to Henrietta Dean Holt. ^[4]

Legacy

• Three U.S. states have named counties in his honor. They are: Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.

Sources

1. ↑ Resigned, vacant March 6, 1885 – March 9, 1885 when successor appointed.
2. ↑ Rogers, William “Brother”: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Mississippi History Now, Mississippi Historical Society, Dec. 2005
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4L8-RW9 : 12 April 2016), J Q C LaMar, Lafayette county, Lafayette, Mississippi, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
4. ↑ "Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXVC-4M1 : 4 November 2017), L. Q. C. LaMar and Henrietta Dean Holt, 05 Jan 1887; citing Marriage, Bibb, Georgia, United States, county courthouses, Georgia; FHL microfilm 394,106.

See also:

• "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVSF-5963 : 17 March 2018), Justice L Q C LaMar, 24 Jan 1893; citing Ogden Standard Examiner 4, The University of Utah. J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City.
• Kennedy, John F.: Profiles in Courage, 1955, ISBN 978-0-06-095544-1
• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, (1825-1893)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #5695 for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, Jr (17 Sep 1825–23 Jan 1893), citing Oxford Memorial Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by Find A Grave.
• Wikipedia: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
• Lucius Q. C. LaMar : his life, times, and speeches, 1825-1893 by Edward Mayes, LL.D.