Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (July 15, 1797 – July 4, 1834) was a native Georgian

Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

, a jurist who was the father of a U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

 Justice by the same name, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (II)

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi. A United States Representative and Senator, he also served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the first administration of President Grover Cleveland, as well as an Associate Justice of the U.S...

. An eccentric brother of his mother claimed the naming of her children, and called them after his favorite historical heroes, in Lamar's case the Roman statesman Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus

Cincinnatus

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was an aristocrat and political figure of the Roman Republic, serving as consul in 460 BC and Roman dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC....

. He was the brother of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas

Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas was an independent nation in North America, bordering the United States and Mexico, that existed from 1836 to 1846.Formed as a break-away republic from Mexico by the Texas Revolution, the state claimed borders that encompassed an area that included all of the present U.S...

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Lucius studied law at Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville, Georgia

Milledgeville is a city in and the county seat of Baldwin County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is northeast of Macon, located just before Eatonton on the way to Athens along U.S. Highway 441, and it is located on the Oconee River. The relatively rapid current of the Oconee here made this an...

 and in the law school at Litchfield Law School

Litchfield Law School

The Litchfield Law School of Litchfield, Connecticut, was the first formal school offering training for the legal profession in the United States. It was established in 1784 by Tapping Reeve, who would later became the Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court...

 in Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield, Connecticut

Litchfield is a town in and former county seat of Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, and is known as an affluent summer resort. The population was 8,316 at the 2000 census. The boroughs of Bantam and Litchfield are located within the town...

, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1819, practising in Milledgeville. He revised Augustin Smith Clayton

Augustin Smith Clayton

Augustin Smith Clayton was a jurist and politician from the American state of Georgia.Clayton was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, attended the Richmond Academy in Augusta, Georgia, and graduated with the inaugural class of Franklin College at the University of Georgia in Athens...

's Georgia Justice about 1819, and was commissioned by the legislature to compile The Laws of Georgia from 1810 to 1819 (Augusta, 1821). In 1830 he was elected to succeed Thomas W. Cobb

Thomas W. Cobb

Thomas Willis Cobb was a United States Representative and Senator from Georgia.-Biography:Born in Columbia County, Georgia, he pursued preparatory studies, and studied law. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Lexington, Georgia...

as judge of the superior court. He committed suicide in 1834.