Walter Lambeth

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.

Sources

• Walter Lambeth at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Hinton James	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 7th congressional district 1931–1933	Succeeded by J. Bayard Clark
Preceded by Robert L. Doughton	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 7th congressional district 1933–1939	Succeeded by William O. Burgin