Lucius Q. C. Lamar

Lucius Q. C. Lamar practiced law here at two intervals from 1847 to 1854 before moving to Macon and Mississippi. After his father's death in 1834, his family settled at Covington and then at nearby Oxford in 1838, where he graduated from Emory College in 1845. In 1853, Newton County elected Lamar to the State Legislature, beginning a career that led to service to the Confederacy, to the U.S. House and Senate, as Secretary of the Interior, and on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Covington, Georgia · United States