Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus (1825–1893)

US jurist and public official. He was a member of the Senate 1877–85 and served as President Cleveland's secretary of the interior 1885–88. He sat on the Supreme Court 1888–93.

Lamar was born in Elbert County, Georgia, educated at Emory College, and became a barrister 1847. After teaching at the University of Mississippi, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, serving 1857–60. During the American Civil War 1861–65 he served briefly in the Confederate army and was the Confederacy's special commissioner to the UK, France, and Russia. After the war Lamar returned to the University of Mississippi and sat in the US House of Representatives 1873–77.