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Show DEATH SUMMONS LAMAR. Associate Justice of Supreme Court Succumbs After Long Illness. Washington. Joseph Rucker Lamar, La-mar, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, died at his home here Sunday night, after an illness ill-ness of several months. He was 58 years old and had been on the supreme bench five years. The immediate cause of death was gradual heart failure, hastened by inflammation in-flammation of one of the lungs which had threatened to develop into pneumonia. pneu-monia. Associate Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar had the distinction of being one of the few members of the court appointed ap-pointed by a president of opposite political po-litical faith. President Taft appointed him in 1910 with only two precedents for such action, those of Justice Jackson Jack-son and Lurton. Justice Lamar was born in Ruckers-ville, Ruckers-ville, Elbert county, Ga., October 14, 1857. He attended the University of Georgia and. later Bethany college, where he was graduated in 1877. He attended the law school at Washington Washing-ton and Lee university, and was admitted ad-mitted to the bar at Augusta, Ga., in 1878. He lived at Augusta until appointed ap-pointed to the supreme court bench. |
