Joseph R. Lamar, Associate Justice Supreme Court of the United States-GHS 121-6-Richmond Co
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N 33° 28.309 W 081° 57.896
17S E 410341 N 3704011
415 Seventh Street, Augusta
Waymark Code: WM7A2Z
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2009
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Joseph Rucker Lamar (1857-1916) lived in this manse from 1860-1875 while his father, James Sanford Lamar, was pastor of First Christian Church. A prominent attorney, he served two terms in the Georgia legislature and codified the civil code of Georgia in 1893. He sat as an associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, 1903-1905. Although a Democrat, he was appointed by Republican President Taft as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1911. President Wilson, his boyhood friend, appointed Lamar to serve on the commission for the 1914 peace negotiation between the United States and Mexico. Lamar died in office at his Washington, D.C. home in 1916.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 121-6
Date: 2002.17
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Society and Historic Augusta, Inc
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