William Lamberth
William Lamberth | |
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Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
Assumed office January 8, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Glen Casada |
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 44th district | |
Assumed office January 8, 2013 | |
Preceded by | Mike McDonald |
Personal details | |
Born | William Gary Lamberth December 5, 1977 Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Lauren Schmidt |
Children | 2 |
Education | University of Tennessee (BA) College of William and Mary (JD) |
William Gary Lamberth (born December 5, 1977) is an American politician.[1][2][3][4] He serves as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the forty-fourth district, encompassing parts of Sumner County, Tennessee.[1][2][4]
Biography
Early life
He was born on December 5, 1977 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.[1] He is a fifth generation resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and grew up on a farm in Tennessee.[2][self-published source][4] He attended high school in Portland, Tennessee.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2001 and received a J.D. from the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2004, where he was elected President of the Student Bar Association.[1][2][self-published source]
Career
He was an Assistant District Attorney for Sumner County.[3][4] He now practices law as a private attorney in Gallatin, Tennessee.[1][3]
He was elected as state representative for the forty-fourth district Tennessee in 2012, replacing Democratic representative Mike McDonald.[1][2][3]
He is former president of the Rotary Club of Gallatin, Tennessee and the Sumner County Bar Association, and former treasurer of the Republican Party of Sumner County.[1][2][self-published source] He is also Chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation, table host and donor to the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center in Gallatin.[1][2][self-published source] He also donates to the Middle Tennessee Mission Outreach and regularly goes on Christian missions to Honduras and other regions of the world that are in need of humanitarian relief efforts.[1][2][self-published source]
Controversial Legislation
In 2022, after accepting over $50,000 in campaign donations from Jack Daniels and other alcohol suppliers, multiple detention facility operators and various pharmaceutical companies, [5] Lamberth embarked on a personal crusade [6] to ban all forms of cannabis in Tennessee containing greater than .3% THC. [7] This effort to ban came in spite of overwhelming public support of cannabis legalization, [8] federal legality of non-delta 9 THC [9] and a clear position from the FDA and USDA [9] that delta 8 THC is not a controlled substance. [10]
Personal life
He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth, and has two children, Allison and Pierce.[1][2][self-published source][4] He is a Baptist.[1][2][self-published source] He lives in Cottontown, Tennessee with his family.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Tennessee General Assembly
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Campaign website
- ^ a b c d e William Lamberth's victory restores TN District 44 seat to GOP, The Tennessean, November 06, 2012
- ^ a b c d e Lamberth '04 Elected to Tennessee State House, William & Mary Law School, November 07, 2012
- ^ Entity Details LAMBERTH, WILLIAM G Individual. "Lamberth, William G". FollowTheMoney.org. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
- ^ "Tennessee lawmakers debate making most Delta-8 THC illegal in the state". 24 March 2022.
- ^ "Tennessee General Assembly Legislation".
- ^ "Power Poll: About 88% of people surveyed support legalizing marijuana in some form across Tennessee".
- ^ a b "Farm Bill".
- ^ "Is D8 from Hemp a Controlled Substance? DEA Says "No". | Kight on Cannabis".
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