Mississippi’s Ordinances of Secession are often referenced here when connecting the war to slavery. What is never discussed is that they were drafted by Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar who after the Civil War became a US Congressman, a US Senator, Secretary of the Interior and lastly confirmed as an associate Justice of the US Supreme Court.
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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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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.