Walter Lambeth Explained

Walter Lambeth
State:North Carolina
Term Start:March 4, 1933
Term End:January 3, 1939
Predecessor:Robert L. Doughton
Successor:William O. Burgin
State2:North Carolina
Term Start2:March 4, 1931
Term End2:March 3, 1933
Predecessor2:Hinton James
Successor2:J. Bayard Clark
Office3:Mayor of Thomasville, North Carolina
Term Start3:1925
Term End3:1929
Office4:Member of the North Carolina Senate
Term4:1921
Birth Name:John Walter Lambeth
Birth Date:10 January 1896
Birth Place:Thomasville, North Carolina, U.S.
Death Place:Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting Place:City Cemetery, Thomasville, North Carolina, U.S.
Party:Democratic
Alma Mater:Trinity College
Harvard University
Profession:Politician
Allegiance:United States
Branch:United States Army
Serviceyears:1918–1919
Rank:Sergeant
Battles:World War I

John Walter Lambeth (January 10, 1896 – January 12, 1961) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.

Born in Thomasville, North Carolina, Lambeth attended local public schools.He graduated from Trinity College (now Duke University), Durham, North Carolina, in 1916, and later attended Harvard. He joined the Army on January 15, 1918, and saw service in Europe during the remainder of the First World War. He was discharged with the rank of sergeant on July 26, 1919.

Lambeth worked in furniture manufacturing between 1919 and 1930, was elected to the North Carolina State Senate in 1921, and was mayor of Thomasville from 1925 to 1929. He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second Congress in 1930 and was re-elected three times before declining nomination in 1938.

He died in Washington, D.C., on January 12, 1961, and is interred in the City Cemetery in Thomasville.