Joseph Rucker Lamar

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Joseph Rucker Lamar

associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

Also known as: Joseph R. Lamar

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Born:: October 14, 1857, Elbert county, Georgia, U.S.

Died:: January 2, 1916, Washington, D.C. (aged 58)

Title / Office:: Supreme Court of the United States (1911-1916), United States; supreme court (1911-1916), United States

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Joseph Rucker Lamar (born October 14, 1857, Elbert county, Georgia, U.S.—died January 2, 1916, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1911–16). In 1877 Lamar earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany College in West Virginia. After studying law briefly at Washington and Lee University, he left there without earning a degree. Lamar was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1878, after which he taught Latin for a year at Bethany College and married the daughter of the college president. In 1880 he was offered a law partnership and started his practice in Augusta, ...(100 of 278 words)

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