LQC LAMAR LIFELINE

By David Sansing

1825: Born Lucius Quintus Lamar into a prominent Georgia family of French descent

1845: Graduated Emory College, under tutelage of A. B. Longstreet, later Chancellor of UM

1847: After reading law, admitted to the Georgia bar, married Longstreet's daughter, Virginia

1850: Assistant professor of mathematics, University of Mississippi, also practiced law in Oxford

1851: Great Oxford debate with Henry Stuart Foote, college dismissed to hear the oratory

1852: Returned to Georgia, served in state house of representatives

1855: Moved back to Oxford, established Solitude, a plantation near Abbeville

1857-1860: Served in the United States Congress

1860: Appointed to the Chair of Ethics and Metaphysics, University of Mississippi

1861: Member of Mississippi Secession Convention, drafted the Ordinance of Secession

1861: Lt. Col., 19th Mississippi Reg, suffered from vertigo, resigned military commission

1863: Confederate Diplomat to Russia, not accepted; spent some time in France and England

1864-1865: Confederate Diplomat-at-Large, by special appointment of President Jefferson Davis

1865: Professor of Ethics, following year appointed Professor of Law, University of Mississippi

1873-1877: Served in the United States Congress

1874: Conciliatory eulogy of Mass. Senator Charles Sumner brought great fame, praise to Lamar for this speech John F. Kennedy featured Lamar in Profiles in Courage

1877-1885: Served in United States Senate

1885-1888: Secretary of the Interior - Jacob Thompson, also of Oxford also Secretary of Interior

1888-1893: Justice of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Grover Cleveland

1893: Died; internment in Macon, GA; re-internment in St Peter's Cemetery at Oxford in 1894