United States, Georgia, Newton County, Covington, 33.59678, -83.86018Hooks, Byron1996/2014Location: Floyd St. just off the downtown square, CovingtonText of marker: "LUCIUS Q.C. LAMAR. Here was located the office in which L.Q.C. Lamar, Statesman and Jurist, practiced law at two intervals from 1847 to 1854, then moving to Macon and Mississippi. His family located at Covington after his father's death in 1834, and at nearby Oxford in 1838, where in 1845, he graduated from Emory College. In 1853, Newton County elected Lamar to the State Legislature, starting his career which led to valuable service to the Confederacy, to the U.S. House and Senate, Secretaryship of the Interior, and to the U.S. Supreme Court. [U.S. Works Progress Administration Marker]"image/jpegenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/Historical markers--Georgia--Newton CountyLamar, L. Q. C. (Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus), 1825-1893Lucius Q.C. Lamar historical markerStillImage