Henry Graybill Lamar (July 10, 1798 – September 10, 1861) was a

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, lawyer and jurist from Georgia. Lamar was born in

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, Georgia, in 1798. He studied law, gained admittance to the state

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and practiced law in

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. He served as a state superior court judge before being elected to the

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. In 1828, Lamar was elected as a Jacksonian

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from Georgia to the

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to fill the remainder of the term for the vacant seat resulting from the resignation of

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. Lamar was reelected to the

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and served in total from December 7, 1829, to March 3, 1833. He lost his reelection campaign for the 23rd Congress in 1832. Lamar also ran an unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial campaign in 1857 and served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He died in Macon on September 10, 1861, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in that same city.

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