Lamar was a senator from Mississippi and was a Democrat. He served from 1883 to 1885.
He was previously a senator from Mississippi as a Democrat from 1877 to 1883; the representative for Mississippi’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Mississippi’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1873 to 1875; the representative for Mississippi’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1859 to 1861; and the representative for Mississippi’s 1st congressional district as a Democrat from 1857 to 1859.
![Photo of Sen. Lucius Lamar [D-MS, 1883-1885]](/static/legislator-photos/406540-200px.jpeg)
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
