Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (
September 17,
1825 -
January 23,
1893) was a native
Georgian who graduated from Emory College (later
Emory University) in
1845, and married the daughter of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, one of the school's early presidents. Lamar would go on to represent
Mississippi in the United States
Senate from 1877 to 1885 and, later, become the lone Mississippian to serve on the
Supreme Court of the United States from 1888 to 1893.