Joseph Rucker Lamar
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| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
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In office December 17, 1910 – January 2, 1916 |
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| Nominated by | William Taft |
| Preceded by | William Moody |
| Succeeded by | Louis Brandeis |
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| Born |
Joseph Rucker Lamar October 15, 1857 Ruckersville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | January 2, 1916 (aged 58) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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University of Georgia Bethany College, West Virginia (BA) Washington and Lee University |
Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 15, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death in 1916.
Born in Ruckersville, Elbert County, Georgia, Lamar was the son of a minister and attended the Academy of Richmond County in Augusta, Georgia and the Martin Institute in Jefferson, Georgia. During his time in Augusta, he lived next door to and was the "closest friend" of future president Woodrow Wilson, whose father was the local Presbyterian minister. They both also attended Joseph T. Derry's school for boys in a local warehouse, a school whose other students would also become a future Congressman, major newspaper owner/ambassador and the dean of Columbia Law School. After Lamar graduated from the Penn Lucy School near Baltimore, Maryland, he attended the University of Georgia where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society before graduating from Bethany College in 1877, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi. After attending law school at Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lamar read law with a prominent Augusta attorney, then returned to Bethany College to teach Latin for a year, and then began practicing law in Augusta, GA.
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