David Frum

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Lamar had been author of the Mississippi ordinance of secession. He served in the Confederate army, then as the CSA's special envoy to seek British and French help in the war. After the war, he fiercely opposed the Reconstruction constitutional amendments. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022

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So Cleveland nominated Lucius Quintus Lamar of Mississippi, a former senator then serving as Cleveland's secretary of the interior. But Lamar was not just any Mississippian ... 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022

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As a US senator, Lamar led Democrats in sabotaging what little remained of voting rights enforcement in the South after the deal that secured the presidency for Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 29, 2022