William Harmong Lamar (born December 11, 1859 – February 10, 1928) was an American lawyer.Marquis (1928).
Family The son of Dr. William Harmong Lamar, and Ann Maria Lamar, née Glenn, William Harmong Lamar was born in Auburn, Alabama, on December 11, 1859; he had five siblings.
He married Virginia Longstreet on June 21, 1887. They had four children: Mrs. Virginia Longstreet Matthews, née Lamar (1889–1977); Mrs. Augusta Glenn "Gussie" Lytle, née Lamar (1891–1973); Lucius Quintus Cinncinatus Lamar (1892–1954); and William Harmong Lamar III (1897–1970). William H. Lamar IV is, pastor of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington DC.
Education He received a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Alabama Polytechnic in 1881, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Georgetown University in 1884, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1885, also from Georgetown.
Military service During the Spanish–American War, he served as a captain in the US Volunteer Signal Corps and in public relations campaigns for the war.
Professional life He began his practice of law in Washington, D.C. and Rockville, Maryland shortly after graduation and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1894 as a Democrat.
He served as an assistant attorney for the United States Department of Justice from 1906 to 1913.
Following the election of Woodrow Wilson, a fellow Democrat, as President, he was made assistant attorney-general and Solicitor of the Post Office Department (1913-1921),For his activities against mail fraud, see: "Medical Mail Order Concerns", pp.268-358 in Cramp (1921). because of which he was targeted by anarchists for assassination in the 1919 United States anarchist bombings.Materer (1991), p.136.
He left office after the election of Warren Harding, a Republican, as President in 1921 and served in private practice with his son Lucius until his death in 1928.Witemeyer (1996).
Affiliations He was a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland Bar Association, Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Phi. He was also a Methodist.
Death He died at the Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH), Washington, D.C., on February 10, 1928,Deaths: William H. Lamar, The Frederick Post, (Tuesday, February 14, 1926), p.5. and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.
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References Marquis, A.N. (ed,) (1928), "William Harmong Lamar", p.1248 in Who's Who in America: Vol.15, Chicago, IL: The A.N. Marquis Company. Cramp, A.J. (ed.) (1921). Nostrums and Quackery: Volume II. Chicago, IL: American Medical Association.