Ambrose Lamar

## President of Georgia

Ambrose J. Lamar (born 13 february 1844) is the xth and current president of Georgia since the october 1904 political crisis in the country. Lamar is a member of the Georgian Nativist Party, a conservative, racist and deeply-religious party that had managed to win several elections since its founding in the 1840's, generally keeping the same line of thought and ideology through the decades.

## Biography

Born as Ambrose Jackson Lamar (Jackson honoruing the first president of the Republic, James Jackson) during an abnormally frosty morning in the Georgian town of Riverside, he was the third and last son of the landowner Adelbert Lamar, who owned a large tract of land in the center of the country that he used to farm (mostly) cotton using slave labour. Adelbert was known for misstreating his slaves, often beating them when they did not reach the production quotas he had set so he could overcome his main rival in the cotton plantation industry, "Sir" William Raleigh. The Raleighs and the Lamar had been sworn enemies since the valley of the the Coosa River opened to settlement following the Red Sticks' War back in the 1810's. Both Lamar and Raleigh intended to use their power over the area to act as effective lords, imposing themselves and their authority over the area and not only affecting their slaves. These kind of practices were common through Georgia and often the government turned a blind eye to them unless they resulted in bloodshed.

As for Ambrose Lamar, he grew and proved to be the most intelligent of Adelbert's sons, quickly showing interest in biology and related sciences, and his father paid him a good education, with Ambrose moving to Marthasville in 1859 to attend classes in the Tattnall University, being barely 15 at the time. However, that year was also the same year the Appalachian War started, and his status as a college student prevented Lamar from being recruited in the Georgian Army along with his two of his three brothers and his father, who served as a captain during the conflict. From then on, the story of the Lamar family suddenly went downhill as William, Ambrose's eldest brother died during the Battle of the Lights in september that same year. His father Adelbert was wounded in a skirmish on the banks of the Tennessee river two months later, with Ambrose returning home temporarily to assist his father and Jacob (his non-recruited, mentally handicapped brother).

Adelbert recovered soon enough and went back to the fighting, while Ambrose returned to Marthasville in march 1860. However, bad luck stroke the Ambrose family again when both Adelbert and Josiah (Ambrose's other brother) perished during the siege of Athens in november 1860. After hearing the news, Ambrose left college and, after a brief return to his family's property in Riverside, joined the Georgian Army, fighting in the Battle of Long Hill, the last major battle of the Georgian theater of the war, during which he was hit by a stray piece of shrapnel in the left arm, and he had to be hospitalised for two weeks as he struggled with a light case of sepsis that fortunately left him with no sequels.

However, when he could finally return to (now) his property, he found the grand, white maison of the family completely empty, with nobody working in the fields. He contacted the sheriff of Riverside, and he was informed that his remaining family (his mother, brother and two sisters) had been brutally murdered during a slave uprising that was supressed while he was being hospitallised, a fact that made the young Ambrose incredibly resentful of blacks, to which he blamed not only the murder of his family, but also Georgia's defeat in the war. When Lamar returned to college he was a changed man, and he often closed himself in this working room reading book after book on anthropology and social sciences.

In 1863 he completed his studies and, with barely no money left as his lands being taken by no other than William Raleigh himself after he bought them during a state auction in order to pay Georgia's war debts, Ambrose had to work cleaning shoes, a job in which he regained some of his social skills and developed enough confidence in his own speech cappacities, often being able to keep talking to his clients long after he had finished cleaning. He finally got enough money to buy himself a house and met his future wife, Jane, who happened to also have an interest in biology but had been denied a proper education by his father. The young couple married in 1867, and they began a prollific literary career, over the years writing books in which, through the use of scientific racism, explained Georgia's defeat in the war, how slavery was morally correct, and how the only way to restore the natural order of the world (he was a naturalist through and through) was for the white anglo-saxon man to be at the top of the pyramid, with afroamericans at the bottom serving as a caste only deemed for the lowest of jobs.

Opportunity arose again for Ambrose when the jingoist president of Georgia, Stanley MacCornick declared war to Spain over Florida in 1888. Lamar was conscripted and rose to the rank of lieutenant after achieving an unexpected victory against slaves liberated by the Spanish, which he used as proof to further his racialist view of the world. Anyhow, ultimately Georgia was no rival for Spain and MacCornick's daring ride turned into a disaster, albeit none of Lamar's familiars died in the war, giving him an aura of invicibility in the country that Lamar decided not to take profit of, beign disenchanted with politics. All of that changes when the country fell in an economic crisis at the dawn of the 20th century, and coalition governments succeeded each other in power as the power of the Georgian aristocracy waned and social tensions spiked.

In this context, Ambrose decided to try his hand at solving the nation's problems, and joined the Nativist Party in 1901. His fiery oratory and conviction in his cause led to Lamar winning the election of 1904 with enough majority to pass whatever laws he wanted. Lamar collected party funds and private donations to feed and give job to unemployed or poor whites, stripping blacks from any jobs he considered them not worthy to have, and gave them to whites. Lamar also managed to obtain a loan from Virginia which he employed in bolstering infrastructure and industry (and installing many Virginian firms in the country), in which blacks were abused even more terribly than in the fields. By 1910 Lamar has already started his next move, as he views blacks as no longer necessary in Georgia, he approved the "National Cleansing Act" in 1809, which stated that all blacks were to be either shipped to Africa or expelled somewhere out Georgia. This has led to a renewed spike in race relations, as Lamar's rule over Georgia is solidified thanks to the support of poor whites and the old aristocracy, while black gangs are forming in the streets and Georgia seems destined to fall into a great civil war between races.