Joseph Rucker Lamar
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About
Served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1910 to 1916.
Before Fame
He graduated from Bethany College in 1877.
Trivia
He wrote opinions dealing with the early 1900s Leo Frank case in which a Jewish-American factory superintendent was convicted of murdering one of his workers and was then killed by a lynch mob.
Family Life
He was the son of a minister.
Associated With
He was nominated to the Supreme Court by President William H. Taft.
