Supreme Court Lucius Lamar ALS
Single page autograph letter signed, 5" x 8". Undated. Signed by? Lucius Lamar as "L.Q.C. Lamar". Near fine with expected folds.
"I want to see you personally. Can't you come round + see me.?
I think I may give you an idea about this matter - which will change your view as to my coming out on Jackson's speech"
Lamar's letter was most likely a reference to Howell Jackson who succeeded Lamar.?Jackson was nominated by President Benjamin Harrison on February 2, 1893, to an Associate Justice seat on the Supreme Court of the United States vacated by Associate Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II. Having lost the 1892 presidential election to Grover Cleveland, Harrison chose to nominate Jackson, a Southern Democrat, in the hope of filling Lamar's vacancy before leaving office. Harrison chose Jackson partly due to the advice of Associate Justice Henry Billings Brown, who had befriended Jackson while serving as a district judge in Jackson's circuit.
Lamar was later featured in John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Profiles in Courage (1957), for his eulogy speech for Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner (R) in 1874, along with his support of the findings of a partisan congressional committee regarding the disputed presidential election of 1876, and for his unpopular vote against the Bland–Allison Act of 1878.
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