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( Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus ) Lamar, then Secretary of the Interior ( March 1885-January 1888 ).
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Numerous variations of the Washington bust were produced, portraying him variously as a general in uniform, in the classical manner showing chest musculature, and as Roman Consul Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus clad in a toga.
* The Roman general Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is summoned by the Roman Senate to defend the city from attack by the approaching Aequi.
Married to Quinctia, daughter of Lucius Quinctius, who was executed in 43 BC, Pollio is also notable as the father of Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus, the second husband of Vipsania Agrippina, daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Augustus's partner, second-in-command and second son-in-law.
Lamar was born near Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, and was named after ancient Roman consul and dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus ( 520 BC – 430 BC ) 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.
::: "… it was determined that a dictator should be appointed to retrieve their shattered fortunes, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was appointed by universal consent.
Shortly after this, in 74, he became consul ( along with Marcus Aurelius Cotta, Julius Caesar's uncle ), and defended Sulla's constitution from the efforts of Lucius Quinctius.
A member of the patrician gens Quinctia, and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was appointed propraetor in Tarentum.
Because of the assistance given Rome the previous year, the Romans came to their defense, and helped regain the citadel, with soldiers under the command of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, who defeated the Aequi at the battle of Mons Algidus.
Lucius and Cincinnatus
Its name is in honor of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, member of the United States Senate from Mississippi.
Named for the post-Civil War Mississippi statesman Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the county was carved out of Marion County to the west in 1904.
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ( September 17, 1825January 23, 1893 ) was an American politician and jurist from Mississippi.
The next morning, Cincinnatus went to the Roman forum and nominated as his Master of the Horse ( his second in command ) Lucius Tarquitius, who was considered one of the finest soldiers in Rome.
* Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ( II ) ( 1825 – 1893 ), American politician, United States Supreme Court justice
Lucius and Lamar
Lamar's brother Lucius committed suicide in 1834, and a grief-stricken Lamar began traveling to escape his memories.
* Lucius Lamar, from Mississippi, for eulogizing Charles Sumner on the Senate Floor and other efforts to mend ties between the North and South during Reconstruction, and for his principled opposition to the Bland – Allison Act to permit free coinage of silver.
Kennedy also praised Lucius Lamar, who, while working in the public eye towards reconciliation, privately was an instigator of growing racial agitation, as chronicled in the book Redemption: The Last Battle for the Civil War by Nicholas Lemann.
The others were Associate Justices Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar ( II ) and Horace Harmon Lurton.
Jackson served on the Sixth Circuit until 1893, when President Benjamin Harrison, despite the difference in their respective political parties, nominated him to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the death of Lucius Q. C. Lamar.
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