Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

July 15, 1797 - July 4, 1834

Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. His marker reads: "Sacred to the memory of Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Late Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit. Who during a brief service of five years discharged the duties of that high office with probity, firmness, assiduity and unquestionable reputation. The devoted love of his family, the ardent attachment of personal friends, the admiration of the bar, and the universal approbation of his enlightened administration of justice attest the goodness and eminence of one arrested by a death too early in the bright and useful career in which he had been placed by his native state. Born July 15, 1797. Died July 4, 1834."

Lamar committed suicide. A false legend relates that he had hanged an innocent man and was remorseful. This is not true, as no question had arisen at the time of Lamar's death about whether the man might have been innocent.

Lamar's brother Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar was the second President of the Republic of Texas. His son, also named LQC Lamar, was a subject of John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

Side: West, Section: E