Gazaway Bugg Lamar was the son of Basil Lamar and Rebecca Kelly.
Jefferson Mirabeau Lamar, born 03 Jan 1835 in Milledgeville, Baldwin Co, GA, was the youngest son of L. Lamar, Sr and Sarah Williamson Bird.
Lamar graduated from the University of Mississippi before opening a law practice in Covington, GA. A month after his July 1861 marriage to his cousin, Mary Ann Lamar, who was the grandaughter of Mildred Cobb-Jackson, he was commissioned captain of the "Lamar Infantry", a unit later designated as Company A of the Legion.
JosephRuckerLamar (October 15, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft.
He had previously served on the Georgia Supreme Court between 1903 and 1905.
Justice Lamar, together with Frederick W. Lehmann, was selected in 1914 to represent the United States at the ABC Powers Conference convened to avert a war over the Veracruz Incident.
Lamar is one of the most distinguished lawyers and public servants in Augusta history.
Lamar alone prepared the volume on civil law that the state Legislature approved in 1895.
Historians say Lamar was surprised by his appointment to the Supreme Court because he had met Taft only a year before, in 1909, when the president vacationed in Augusta.
Joseph R. Lamar came to this house as a boy during the time his father, James S. Lamar, was pastor of First Christian Church.
Lamar became a lawyer, served in the Georgia legislature and was named to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1903 but resigned in 1905 to resume his private law practice.
In December 1910, President William Howard Taft, a frequent winter visitor to Augusta, appointed Lamar an Associate Justice of the United Supreme Court.
JosephRucker Lamar[lumAr´] Pronunciation Key, 18571916, American jurist, b.
Elbert co., Ga. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1878, served (188689) in the state legislature, and compiled The Code of the State of Georgia (1896).
Lamar, Lucius Q.C. American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served the Confederacy during the American Civil War (186165) and later became an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Tennessee voters in 1978 could easily recognize the Republican candidate for governor, Lamar Alexander, as he walked across the state in his red and fl flannel shirt.
Born on Sept. 17, 1825, in Putnam County, Ga., Lamar moved permanently to Mississippi in 1849.
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A celebrated landmark of The Garden City, The Lamar Building, in the heart of the business district, is home to a wide range of business professionals and community service groups.
The Lamar Building boasts the oldest elevator in Augusta, according to Steve Thayer, local representative with Otis Elevator Co. The Lamar Building was completed in 1913 and one of the original service elevators remains in the building.
The Lamar building was named in honor of JosephRuckerLamar, third baseman for Augusta Lightfoot baseball club, (Woodrow Wilson was second baseman), became an Augusta lawyer, and served as a Supreme Court Justice for the State of Georgia.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Lamar, Joseph Rucker @ HighBeam Research(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
LAMAR, JOSEPHRUCKER[Lamar, JosephRucker], 1857-1916, American jurist, b.
Elbert co., Ga. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1878, served (1886-89) in the state legislature, and compiled The Code of the State of Georgia (1896).
He served (1904-6) on the state supreme court and was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1911-16).
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Its University of Mississippi chapter, established in his junior year, was named for a Beta Supreme Court Justice, JosephRuckerLamar, Bethany 1877 and Washington and Lee 1878.
Lamar had been General Secretary of Beta Theta Pi as a student in 1877-78.
Whitten was one of the members of an honorary cabinet chosen for the Beta Sesquicentennial Campaign in 1989.
Purchased in 1995, the Lamar house was the home of JosephRuckerLamar, a childhood friend of young ``Tommy'' Wilson who would go on to become a Supreme Court justice.
The high price tag for the project - $2.5 million - is caused equally by extensive renovation needed for modern conveniences such as bathrooms and elevators in the Lamar house and the exhaustive restoration attempts in the Wilson house, according to a budget prepared by Historic Augusta after consulting with architects.
Altogether, estimates run as high as $1.08 million to complete the Wilson house and almost $1.28 million for the Lamar house.
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CREDIT2: BYLINE2:From Staff Reports Each year the best pupils at Augusta's Lamar Elementary School benefit from a unusual scholarship fund.
Wilson asked him to go to Latin America to negotiate a conference with Argentina, Brazil and Chile during a crisis with Mexico.
(After U.S. sailors were arrested at Tampico, Mexico, on April 9, 1914, the U.S. Atlantic fleet was sent to Veracruz, Mexico, and occupied the city.) Wilson and Lamar were hardly strangers.
When the Civil War was raging, Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson's church -- with one of Augusta's more affluent congregations -- was used as a hospital for Confederate soldiers.
Plans are in the works to renovate and open as offices and a gift shop the house next door to the Wilson home.
It was the boyhood home of JosephRuckerLamar, a baseball teammate of Tommy Wilson who grew up to be a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., in 1856 and he later attended the University of Virginia Law School, graduating in 1881 having previously graduated from Princeton University.
He became ill in 1919 and died in 1924.
During his boyhood here his playmate and next door neighbor was JosephRuckerLamar, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, 1902-1905 and of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1910, till his death in 1916."