Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) — also known asLucius Q. C. Lamar — of Georgia. Born inWarrenCounty, Ga.,July 15,1797.Lawyer;superior court judge in Georgia, 1830-34.When he learned that a man he had sentenced to death for murder wasnot guilty, hekilledhimself bygunshot,Milledgeville,BaldwinCounty, Ga.,July 4,1834 (age36 years, 354days).Interment atMemoryHill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Ga. | | Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798-1859) — also known asMirabeau B. Lamar — of Texas. Born near Louisville,JeffersonCounty, Ga.,August16, 1798.Member ofGeorgiastate senate, 1829-30; candidate forU.S.Representative from Georgia, 1832, 1834; colonel in the TexasArmy during the Texas War of Independence;TexasRepublic Secretary of War, 1836;VicePresident of the Texas Republic, 1836-38;Presidentof the Texas Republic, 1838-41; colonel in the U.S. Army duringthe Mexican War; member of Texas state legislature, 1847; U.S.Minister toCosta Rica, 1858-59;Nicaragua, 1858-59.Member,Freemasons.Died of aheartattack, near Richmond,Fort BendCounty, Tex.,December19, 1859 (age61 years, 125days).Interment atMortonCemetery, Richmond, Tex. | | Absalom Harris Chappell (1801-1878) — also known asAbsalom H. Chappell — of Forsyth,MonroeCounty, Ga.; Macon,BibbCounty, Ga.; Columbus,MuscogeeCounty, Ga.Born in Mt. Zion,HancockCounty, Ga.,December18, 1801.Lawyer;member ofGeorgiastate senate, 1832-33, 1845; member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives, 1834-39;U.S.Representative from Georgia at-large, 1843-45;delegateto Georgia state constitutional convention, 1865, 1877.Slaveowner. Died in Columbus,MuscogeeCounty, Ga.,December11, 1878 (age76 years, 358days).Interment atLinwoodCemetery, Columbus, Ga.  | Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) — also known asLucius Q. C. Lamar — of Covington,NewtonCounty, Ga.; Abbeville,LafayetteCounty, Miss.; Oxford,LafayetteCounty, Miss.Born near Eatonton,PutnamCounty, Ga.,September17, 1825.Democrat.Lawyer;cottonplanter;president,University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives, 1853;U.S.Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;delegateto Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,1877, 1881;U.S.Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85;U.S.Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.Methodist.Member,SigmaAlpha Epsilon.Slaveowner. Died in Vineville (now part of Macon),BibbCounty, Ga.,January23, 1893 (age67 years, 128days).Original interment atRiversideCemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 atSt.Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.| |  Relatives: SonofLuciusQuintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew ofMirabeauBuonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who marriedAbsalomHarris Chappell); uncle ofWilliamBailey Lamar; fourth cousin ofWilliamMcKendree Robbins andJosephRucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed ofGastonAhi Robbins. | | | | Political family:Lamarfamily of Georgia. | | | | Lamar counties inAla.,Ga. andMiss. arenamed for him. | | | | ThemunicipalityofLamar,Colorado, isnamed forhim. — LamarHall,at theUniversityof Mississippi,Oxford,Mississippi, isnamed forhim. — LamarRiver,in Yellowstone National Park,ParkCounty, Wyoming, isnamed forhim. — LamarBoulevard,inOxford,Mississippi, isnamed forhim. — LamarAvenue,inMemphis,Tennessee, isnamed forhim. — LamarSchool(founded 1964), inMeridian,Mississippi, isnamed forhim. | | | | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —federaljudicial profile —Wikipedia article —Ballotpedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial | | | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.Kennedy,Profilesin Courage | | | | Image source: James G. Blaine, TwentyYears of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
| | William McKendree Robbins (1828-1905) — of Eufaula,BarbourCounty, Ala.; Statesville,IredellCounty, N.C.Born in Trinity,RandolphCounty, N.C.,October26, 1828.Democrat.Lawyer;major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1868, 1872;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 7th District, 1873-79.Died in Salisbury,RowanCounty, N.C.,May 5,1905 (age76 years, 191days).Interment atOakwoodCemetery, Statesville, N.C. | | William Bailey Lamar (1853-1928) — also known asWilliam B. Lamar — of Monticello,JeffersonCounty, Fla.Born near Monticello,JeffersonCounty, Fla.,June 12,1853.Democrat.Lawyer;county judge in Florida, 1883-86; member ofFloridastate house of representatives, 1887;Floridastate attorney general, 1889-99;U.S.Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1903-09.DiedSeptember26, 1928 (age75 years, 106days).Interment atOconeeHill Cemetery, Athens, Ga. | | Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916) — also known asJoseph R. Lamar — of Augusta,RichmondCounty, Ga.Born in Ruckersville,ElbertCounty, Ga.,October14, 1857.Lawyer;member ofGeorgiastate house of representatives, 1886-89;justice ofGeorgia state supreme court, 1903-05;AssociateJustice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1911-16.Disciplesof Christ. Member,Freemasons.Died inWashington,D.C.,January2, 1916 (age58 years, 80days).Interment atSummervilleCemetery, Augusta, Ga. | | Gaston Ahi Robbins (1858-1902) — also known asGaston A. Robbins — of Selma,DallasCounty, Ala.Born in Goldsboro,WayneCounty, N.C.,September26, 1858.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Alabama 4th District, 1893-96, 1899-1900.During thefire thatdestroyed the Park AvenueHotel,already burned, he jumped from a sixth story window, andfell tohis death, in Manhattan,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,February22, 1902 (age43 years, 149days).Interment atOakwoodCemetery, Statesville, N.C.
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