Background
He was born in Auburn, Alabama to Doctor William Harmong Lamar and his wife Annual
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William Harmong Lamar
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Education
Georgetown University Law Center. Auburn University.
Career
He received an Bachelor of Arts from Alabama Polytechnic in 1881, his law degree from Georgetown University in 1884 and a Masters in Law in 1885 from the same. He began his practice of law in Washington, District of Columbia and Rockville, Maryland shortly after graduation and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1894 as a Democrat. During the Spanish–American War, he served as a captain in the Signal Corps and in public relations campaigns for the war.
He served as an assistant attorney for the United States Department of Justice from 1906 to 1913.
Following the election of Woodrow Wilson, a fellow Democrat, as President, he was made assistant attorney general and Solicitor of the Post Office Department, because of which he was targeted by anarchists for assassination in the 1919 United States anarchist bombings. He was also a Methodist.
All information is recovered from the 1928–1929 Who"s Who in America edition
Membership
He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi.
Connections
- Father:
- William Harmong Lamar
- Spouse:
- Virginia Longstreet
- child:
- Mistress Gussie Glenn Lyttle Lamar
- child:
- and Rockville Lamar
- child:
- Mistress Virginia Longstreet Matthews Lamar
- child:
- William H. Began practice at Washington Lamar
- child:
- Maryland Lamar
- child:
- District of Columbia Lamar
- child:
- Lucius Q. C. Lamar
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Born
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Died
February 10, 1928 (aged 68) -
Nationality
American -
Religion
Methodist -
Political Party
Democrat