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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—North CarolinaJohn Walter LAMBETH
(1896-1961)
LAMBETH, John Walter, a
Representative from North Carolina; born in Thomasville, Davidson
County, N.C., January 10, 1896; attended the public schools; was
graduated from Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, N.C.,
in 1916, and later attended Harvard University; during the First
World War entered the Army on January 15, 1918, serving overseas as
a sergeant and was discharged July 26, 1919; engaged in the
manufacture of furniture 1919-1930; also interested in banking;
member of the State senate in 1921; mayor of Thomasville, N.C.,
1925-1929; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the
three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1938; died in Washington, D.C.,
January 12, 1961; interment in City Cemetery, Thomasville, N.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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