Mirabeau B. Lamar
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Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an attorney born in Georgia who became a Texas politician, poet, diplomat, and soldier.
During the Texas Republic period, he was a leading Texas political figure.
After Sam Houston, he was elected as the second president of the Republic of Texas.
He was known for fighting bands of Cherokee and Comanche people in order to force them out of Texas and establish a fund to support public education.
Early life
Lamar was born in 1798 in Louisville, Georgia, and grew up at Fairfield, his father's cotton plantation near Milledgeville, then the state capital. Thomas Lamar, a French Huguenot who had settled in Maryland in 1660, was descended on his father's lineage. John and Rebecca (Lamar) Lamar's parents were allowed to name their sons by his mother's brother; he named them after his favorite historical figures. The elder brother was named for Roman statesman Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus; the younger, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar for French veterans. The family had links with other families in Georgia and the South. Lamar loved to read and educated himself by books as a child. Despite being accepted to Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey), he did not enroll. He began as a merchant and then ran a newspaper, but both of those businesses failed. In 1823, Lamar's family connections helped him to secure a position as the private secretary to newly elected Georgia Governor George M. Troup. Lamar also toured the state and gave speeches on behalf of the governor. Tabitha Burwell Jordan, whom he married in 1826, was on one of his trips. They had a daughter together.
Lamar and his family migrated to Columbus, Georgia, where he founded the Columbus Enquirer, after Troup's re-election bid in 1828. This venture was much more fruitful than his previous business ventures. Tabitha's wife died of tuberculosis in 1830. Lamar was heavily impacted by the incident and it took him time to recover his drive. He withdrew his name from contention for re-election to the Georgia Senate, despite the fact that he had served one term.
Lamar began studying law after traveling. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and ran a shaky bid for a seat in the US Congress.