Lamar County was one of the few Texas counties that voted against secession, though many of its inhabitants later served in the Confederacy.

The city of Houston served as the capital until President Mirabeau Lamar signed a measure that moved the capital to Austin on January 14, 1839.

Its Sole commissioner is Lamar Paris, who has served since 2001.

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.

The Town of Sumrall is served by the Lamar County School District.

He also served as Vice President during the administration of Mirabeau B. Lamar.

Kendleton is served by the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.

Richmond is served by Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.

Rosenberg is served by the Lamar Consolidated Independent School District.

Some of Rosenberg is served by Wessendorf Middle School, Lamar Junior High School, and Lamar Consolidated High School.

The City of Reno is served by the North Lamar Independent School District.

The City of Sun Valley is served by the North Lamar Independent School District.

Mott was made Colonel, as he had served as an officer in the war with Mexico, and Lamar elected Lieutenant Colonel.

Lamar served as United States Secretary of the Interior under President Grover Cleveland from March 6, 1885 to January 10, 1888.

He served as the vice president under Mirabeau B. Lamar and participated in the Battle of Neches.

Burnet served as Vice-President under Mirabeau B. Lamar.

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.

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.

A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death in 1916.

As a soccer venue, Zephyr Field served as home of the New Orleans Storm soccer team in the late 1990s and hosted the semi-final rounds of the 1998 Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup.

David Lamar McDonald ( September 12, 1906 – December 16, 1997 ) was an Admiral of the United States Navy, who served as the 17th Chief of Naval Operations ( CNO ), 1 August 1963 – 1 August 1967, during the Vietnam War era.

After resigning from office to accept a judgeship appointment from Governor of Tennessee Lamar Alexander, Chandler was succeeded by two interim mayors ( including the first-ever African-American to serve in the office, J. O. Patterson, Jr .) and then finally by Richard Hackett, who served from 1983 until 1991.

His brother, Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr., also served as a Member of Congress from their home state, Alabama.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

Lamar charged that the rights of way for this land must be returned to the public because the railroads failed to extend their lines according to agreements.

Owner Bob McNair did have to make a deal with Chiefs ' owner Lamar Hunt to use the Texans nickname for his new team.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

Kemp supported rights for illegal immigrants, but opposed Lamar Smith and Alan Simpson's proposed restrictions on legal immigration.

It is the county seat of Lamar County and serves as a business and employment center for the county.

However, the unperturbed Dr. Lamar, who for years has been asking Vincent during physical exams if he ever told Vincent the story of his own son, once again asks and this time goes on to tell it: His son admires Vincent and wants to be an astronaut despite a genetic defect that would rule him out.

* Bockstoce, John R. ( 2009 ) Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade The Lamar Series in Western History, Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-14921-2, ISBN 978-0-300-14921-0

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.

They acquired superstar center Shaquille O ' Neal on July 14, 2004 in a trade with the Los Angeles Lakers for Lamar Odom, Caron Butler and Brian Grant.

With a good point guard in Miller, Lamar Odom at small forward, one of the league's best power forwards, Brand, the center Olowokandi, and a good supporting cast off the bench, the Clippers could actually make a run for the playoffs.

During the 2004 offseason, the team entered a rebuilding phase when O ' Neal was traded to the Miami Heat for Lamar Odom, Brian Grant, Caron Butler, and a first-round draft pick.

The county was formed by the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 17, 1840, and is named for Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, the second president of Texas.

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.

* Lamar Rogers-Played football in the NFL for the Cincinnati Bengals from 1991-1992.

* Lamar Kelly, World War II Hero, decorated numerous times for action in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters while serving in the United States Navy.

This road was used very much by the early settlers of Lamar County to travel south to the coast for supplies.

According to Lamar County Administrator Chuck Bennett on December 30, 2008, the courthouse is slated for a complete renovation that could cost up to 4 million dollars and could take up to four years to complete.

Jasper has been known as Coon Creek settlement, and as Midway ( a name that at times included the Dublin community just across the Barton County line ) for its position between county-seats Carthage and Lamar, but in the late 19th century it was renamed Jasper to reuse the postal equipment of a previous Jasper that existed southeast of Carthage.

West Hattiesburg, also known as Oak Grove, is, in part, a census designated place ( CDP ) defined for statistical purposes in an urbanized area west of Hattiesburg in Lamar County, Mississippi.

The Lamar Consolidated ISD zone for Pecan Grove is:

It was founded in 1921 and named for its founders, Will Harding and Lamar Gill.

* De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus ( On the Ratios of Velocities in Motions ) Latin text and English translation by H. Lamar Crosby, Jr. in: ' Thomas of Bradwardine: His Tractatus de Proportionibus: Its Significance for the Development of Mathematical Physics ', Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1955.