Lucius Q. C. Lamar-WPA 12 G-6-Newton Co
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N 33° 35.815 W 083° 52.150
17S E 233750 N 3721155
Floyd St just west of Church/Pace St, Covington
Waymark Code: WM6W5B
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2009
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Here was located the office of L.Q.C. Lamar, statesman and jurist, practiced law at two intervals from 1847 to 1854, thence moving to Macon and Mississippi. His family located to Covington after his father´s death in 1834, and at nearby Oxford in 1838, where, in 1845, he graduated from Emory College.
In 1853, Newton County elected Lamar to the State Legislature starting his career which led to valuable service to the Confederacy, to the U.S. House and Senate, Secretaryship of the Interior, and to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: WPA 12 G-6
Sponsor: W.P.A.
Date: Not listed
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