Joseph Rucker Lamar

Joseph Rucker Lamar (born October 14, 1857, Elbert county, Georgia, U.S.—died January 2, 1916, Washington, D.C.) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1911–16). In 1877 Lamar earned a bachelor’s degree from Bethany College in West Virginia. After studying law briefly at Washington and Lee University, he left there without earning a degree. Lamar was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1878, after which he taught Latin for a year...