Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (I)

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (July 15,1797 – July 4, 1834) was a native Georgian, a jurist who was the father of a Supreme Court Justice by the same name, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II). An eccentric brother of his mother claimed the naming of her children, and called them after his favorite historical heroes. He was the brother of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas.

Lucius studied law at Milledgeville and in the law school at Litchfield Law School in Litchfield, Connecticut, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1819, practising in Milledgeville. He revised Augustin Smith Clayton's "Georgia Justice" about 1819, and was commissioned by the legislature to compile "The Laws of Georgia from 1810 to 1819" (Augusta, 1821). In 1830 he was elected to succeed Thomas W. Cobb as judge of the superior court. Shortly before his death he had a severe attack of dyspepsia, with high cerebral fever, from which he never entirely recovered, and in a moment of delirium he shot himself. According to the website "The Political Graveyard," he did so after discovering that a man he had sentenced to death for murder was innocent.

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