William Bailey Lamar

William Bailey Lamar ( born June 12, 1853 in Monticello, Jefferson County, Florida, † September 26, 1928 in Thomasville, Georgia) was an American lawyer and politician.

William Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus a nephew of Lamar, attended Jefferson Academy in Monticello and studied at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he lived from 1866 to 1873. In 1874, he returned to Florida, graduated in 1875 graduated from the Lebanon Law School in Lebanon ( Tennessee) from and practiced, after he had received the approval of the Bar Association, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He then worked from January 1877 to January 1881 as a clerk at the District Court of Jefferson County. From 1883 to 1886 he worked as a judge at the Court of Jefferson County.

1887 Lamar was elected to the House of Representatives from Florida; the election of the Speaker of the House he refused. From 1889 to 1903, he was elected Attorney General of Florida. For the 58th Congress legislature he was in 1902 elected to the newly created third congressional district of Florida for the Democrats in the House of Representatives of the United States. He was re-elected twice and could mandate from March 4, 1903 perceive to March 3, 1909. He tried unsuccessfully in 1908 instead to one of the seats of Florida in the United States Senate; his seat in the House of Representatives could Dannite H. Mays win.

1915 Lamar was appointed as a national officer for the Panama - Pacific International Exposition, which was held in San Francisco. The following year he moved to Washington, D.C. order. He died on 26 September 1928 in Thomasville and was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in Athens.