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Thomas Frank Gailor (1856-1935) —
also known as Thomas F. Gailor —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Jackson, Hinds
County, Miss., September
17, 1856.
Democrat. Episcopal
priest; university
professor; bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, 1898-1935;
chancellor, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., 1908-35;
offered prayer, Democratic National Convention,
1924.
Died October
3, 1935 (age 79 years, 16
days).
Interment at University of the South Cemetery, Sewanee, Tenn.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) —
also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar —
of Covington, Newton
County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette
County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born near Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., September
17, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter;
president, University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1853; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875,
1877, 1881; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon.
Slaveowner.
Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb
County, Ga., January
23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128
days).
Original interment at Riverside
Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St.
Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Miss.
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Relatives: Son
of Lucius
Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird)
Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau
Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom
Harris Chappell); uncle of William
Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William
McKendree Robbins and Joseph
Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston
Ahi Robbins. |
| | | Political family: Lamar
family of Georgia. |
| | | Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are
named for him. |
| | | Lamar Hall,
at the University
of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar River,
in Yellowstone National Park, Park
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Lamar Boulevard,
in Oxford,
Mississippi, is named for
him. — Lamar Avenue,
in Memphis,
Tennessee, is named for
him. — Lamar School
(founded 1964), in Meridian,
Mississippi, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F.
Kennedy, Profiles
in Courage |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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Donald Stuart Russell (1906-1998) —
also known as Donald S. Russell —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Lafayette Springs, Lafayette
County, Miss., February
22, 1906.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during World War II; president,
University of South Carolina, 1952-57; Governor of
South Carolina, 1963-65; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1965-66; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1966-71; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1971-98; died in
office 1998.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., February
22, 1998 (age 92 years, 0
days).
Interment at Greenlawn
Memorial Gardens, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in Taunton, England,
September
7, 1766.
Secretary
of state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president,
Transylvania University, 1804-18; judge of
Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1804; U.S.
District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19.
Died in Millry, Washington
County, Ala., November
11, 1823 (age 57 years, 65
days).
Interment somewhere
in Millry, Ala.; cenotaph at Spring Hill Graveyard, Mobile, Ala.
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