Show DEATH SUMMONS LAMAR associate justice of supreme court succumbs after long illness washington joseph rucker la mar associate justice ot 0 the supreme f ourt of tho the united state states died at his home herd S liday night after an III of several months he ile was 58 years old and had been on tho the supreme bench five years tho the immediate cause of death was gradual heart failure hastened by in flam nam mation of one of the lungs which had threatened ned to develop into anonia I 1 associate justice joseph rucker lamar had the distinction of being one of the few members of the court appointed by a president of opposite po lotical faith falth president taft appointed him in 1910 with only two precedents for or auch such action those of justice jack ton on and lurton justice lamar was born in Ruc duckers kers ville elbert county ga october 14 1857 he attended the university mity ot ol georgia and later bethany ollee ollege where he was graduated in he ile attended the law school at washing ton and leo lee university and was admitted to the bar at augusta ga in 1878 he lived at augusta until appointed to the supreme cr bourt bench |