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Joseph R. Lamar House
Joseph R. Lamar came to this house
as a boy during the time his father, James S. Lamar, was pastor of First
Christian Church. Emily Tubman, chief benefactress of first Christian, bought this
house to make it available as a manse. Lamar became a lawyer, served in the Georgia
legislature and was named to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1903 but resigned in 1905 to
resume his private law practice. In December 1910, President William Howard Taft, a
frequent winter visitor to Augusta, appointed Lamar an Associate Justice of the United
Supreme Court. Historic Augusta, Inc. is restoring the house as an interpretive center for
the Wilson House, next door. (NR)