Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, << luh MAHR, LOO shuhs KWIHN tuhs `sihn` suh NAT uhs >> (1825-1893), a Mississippi statesman and politician, worked for good feeling between the North and the South after the Civil War. In 1861, he had urged the South to withdraw from the Union. He held Confederate diplomatic and military posts during the war. But, in 1874, Lamar attracted national attention with his tribute to the late Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts. Southerners had hated Sumner for his harsh policy toward them.
Lamar served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1873 to 1877, and in the U.S. Senate from 1877 to 1885. He served as secretary of the interior from 1885 to 1888, and then was appointed associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Lamar was born in Putnam County, Georgia, on Sept. 17, 1825. He died on Jan. 23, 1893.
