 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—FloridaWilliam Bailey LAMAR
(1853-1928)
LAMAR, William Bailey,
(nephew of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar), a Representative from
Florida; born near Monticello, Jefferson County, Fla., June 12,
1853; attended Jefferson Academy at Monticello and the University
of Georgia, Athens, Ga., where he resided from 1866 until 1873;
returned to Florida in the latter year; was graduated from the
Lebanon Law School, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1875; was admitted to the
bar; commenced practice in Tupelo, Miss.; clerk of the circuit
court of Jefferson County, Fla., January 1877 to January 1881;
judge of the county court of Jefferson County 1883-1886; member of
the State house of representatives in 1887 and was chosen speaker,
but declined; attorney general of Florida 1889-1903; elected as a
Democrat to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses
(March 4, 1903-March 3, 1909); did not seek renomination;
unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for United States Senator
in 1908; national commissioner to the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition at San Francisco in 1915; moved to Washington, D.C., in
1916; died at his winter home in Thomasville, Thomas County, Ga.,
September 26, 1928; interment in Oconee Hill Cemetery, Athens,
Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
