* 1940 – Lamar Alexander, American politician

Forbes had tried to get Kemp to run in the 1996 campaign, but Kemp declined and in fact endorsed Forbes just as Dole was closing in on the nomination, and just after Dole gained the endorsements of former contenders Lamar Alexander and Richard Lugar.

* Lamar Alexander, former Governor of Tennessee

File: Lamar Alexander 2. jpg | Former Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee

Lamar Alexander

The song was used in Tennessee politics by Lamar Alexander, a trained pianist, Governor of Tennessee and U. S. Senator, who performed the song for campaign events, including during his 1996 run for the Republican presidential nomination.

Former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander referred the county to a new concept of private prisons.

* U. S. Senators: Lamar Alexander ( R ) and Bob Corker ( R )

* U. S. Route 321, known as " Lamar Alexander Parkway ," connects Alcoa with Lenoir City to the west and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the south

The town is situated along State Route 333 ( Miser Station Road ) and stretches from Fort Loudoun Lake in the north to U. S. Route 321 ( Lamar Alexander Parkway ) to the south and lies at an elevation of 879 feet.

U. S. Highway 321 ( Lamar Alexander Parkway ) in Lenoir City

On November 15, 2006 Lott regained a leadership position in the Senate, when he was named Minority Whip after defeating Lamar Alexander of Tennessee 24-23.

This extends to the widespread impression, created by statements such as that by U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee ( in regards to a recently passed measure making English the " official " language of the U. S .), that English is " part of our blood.

Other candidates for the nomination included Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander and the multi-millionaire publisher Steve Forbes.

Although Wyden was ultimately passed over in favor of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, he took advantage of the interim to reintroduce his Healthy Americans Act, with additional co-sponsorship from Republican Senators led by Tennessee's Lamar Alexander and Utah's Bob Bennett as well as from fellow Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.

Bush then pursued O ' Neill to chair an advisory group on education that included Lamar Alexander, Bill Brock, and Richard Riley.

Howard Baker with Bill Frist, Bob Corker, and Lamar Alexander

Bryant was opposed by former governor of Tennessee, U. S. Secretary of Education, and two-time presidential candidate Lamar Alexander for the Republican nomination.

* 1996 – Bob Dole ( 26 %), Pat Buchanan ( 23 %), Lamar Alexander ( 18 %), Steve Forbes ( 10 %), Phil Gramm ( 9 %), Alan Keyes ( 7 %), Richard Lugar ( 4 %), and Morry Taylor ( 1 %)

Judge Wisdom's former law clerks include U. S. Senator Lamar Alexander ; Judge William H. Pryor, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ; Judge Martin Leach-Cross Feldman of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ; Judge D. Brock Hornby of the United States District Court for the District of Maine ; U. S. Bankruptcy Judge Jerry Brown of the Eastern District of Louisiana ; U. S. Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky of the Eastern District of New York ; Justice Nora M. Manella of the California Court of Appeal ; Professor Philip Frickey of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law ; Professor Martha Field of Harvard Law School ; Ricki Tigert Helfer, former chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ; Jack Weiss, Chancellor of Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center ; Barry Sullivan, former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law ; and Gail B. Agrawal, dean of the University of Iowa College of Law.

He also served as the executive director of the Better Schools Foundation, which was founded by Lamar Alexander and whose purpose was to promote the use of school vouchers.

Barry Lamar Bonds ( born July 24, 1964 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

Joseph Rucker Lamar, deceased, who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1910 – 1916, was born in Elbert County.

John Jimmyjack Bankhead, lifelong resident of Alabama, was born in 1842 on his father's farm near Moscow in that part of Marion County which is now Lamar County.

Lamar was born near Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, and was named after ancient Roman consul and dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.

Bankhead was born at the Bankhead plantation in Lamar County, Alabama.

He married Rosella Dragoo ( born in France in 1853 ) on August 28, 1870 in Lamar, Missouri.

Alcee Lamar Hastings ( born September 5, 1936 ) is the U. S. Representative for, serving since 1993.

* Ann Hannaford Lamar ( born 1952 ), American judge, Mississippi Supreme Court justice

* Bo Lamar ( born 1951 ), American basketball player

* Burney Lamar ( born 1980 ), American race car driver

* Howard R. Lamar ( born 1923 ), American historian

* Lamar Odom ( born 1979 ), NBA basketball player

* Lamar Powell ( born 1993 ), English footballer

* Lamar S. Smith ( born 1947 ), American politician, Republican, lead sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act

* Lamar Smith ( born 1970 ), American football player

Vincent Lamar " Vince " Carter ( born January 26, 1977 ) is an American professional basketball player with the Dallas Mavericks.

Kareem Lamar Rush ( born October 30, 1980 ) is an American professional basketball player with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League.

Lamar Joseph Odom ( born November 6, 1979 ) is an American professional basketball forward with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

Odom has three children, Destiny ( 1998 ), Lamar Jr. ( 2002 ), and Jayden ( born December 15, 2005 ), with his ex-girlfriend Liza Morales.

Daryle Lamar Ward ( born June 27, 1975 in Lynwood, California ) is an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder.

Though born as Curtis Wain Gates in Lamar in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado, Curtis was reared west of there in Las Animas, the seat of Bent County.

* Lamar Odom ( born 1979 ), American basketball player

* Khloé Kardashian Odom ( born 1984 ), American television personality and Lamar wife

He was born on July 8, 1872 at the Bankhead plantation in Lamar County, Alabama.