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Show DEATH SUMMONS LAMAR. , Associate Justice of Supreme C: .J Succumbs After Long Mines; Washington. Joseph Rucker j mar, associate justice of the sup- f court of the United States, died a- p home here Sunday night, after a: ness of several months. He wa; years old and had been on the sup:" bench five years. J The immediate cause of death - T gradual heart failu-e, hastened 1 flammation of one of the lungs v I had threatened to develop into p r monia. v Associate Justice Joseph It;;: 1 Lamar had the distinction of being c of the few members of the cour. 1 pointed by a president of oppos: -: h litical faith. President Taft appofr 11 him in 1910 with only two prece; i for such action, those of Justice J son and Lurton. b Justice Lamar was born in Rih ville, Elbert county, Ga., October 1S57. He attended the Universe ' Georgia and later Bethany co"- ? where he was graduated in 1S77. attended the law school at Was'; f" ton and Lee university, and was . mitted to the bar at Augusta, Ga. 1S7S. He lived at Augusta mil'-pointed mil'-pointed to the supreme court hen.: In the practice of the law, he larf represented railroads and other :. corporations, and yet in the ds" : r antipathy to corporation lawyers. , integrity was so highly regarded t the senate without delay coniir1' , his nomination. is |