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Lamar County was created by act of the State Assembly on August 17, 1920, and was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, a lawyer, Colonel in the Confederate Army, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Interior, and Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Its first officers included B.H. Hardy, Ordinary; S.J. Childers, Clerk of Court; Z.T. Elliott, Sheriff; E. Luther Butler, Tax Receiver; Gus Smith, Tax Collector; W. C. Jordan, Treasurer; B.K. Crouch, Coroner; Roger H. Taylor, Surveyor; J.F. Redding, Judge; Mrs. Mattie Barnes, School Supt.; H.M. Johnson, E.O. Dobbs, and H. J. Kennedy, Solicitors.
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