Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Part of the All-Name Team.....

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, II
Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court    1888-1893
Newark native William Burnham Woods died in office as an associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  To replace him,  President Grover Cleveland appointed Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II.  Georgia native Lamar was the first post-Civil War southern born Justice of the Supreme Court.  During the early part of the Civil War Lamar served as an aide to (his cousin) Lt. General James Longstreet.  In 1862, Jefferson Davis later appointed him as the Confederate Minister to Russia and special envoy to England and France.

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