William Gary Lamberth (born December 5, 1977) is an American politician.
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William & Mary Law School, November 07, 2012 He serves as a

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member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the forty-fourth district, encompassing parts of

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Biography

Early life

He was born on December 5, 1977 in

Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States. Founded by pioneers in 1798, Bowling Green was the provisional capital of Confederate Kentucky during the American Civil War. As of the ...

. He is a fifth generation resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and grew up on a farm in Tennessee. He attended high school in

Portland, Tennessee Portland is a city in Sumner and Robertson counties in Tennessee. The population was 11,486 in 2010 according estimates by the U.S. census bureau and in 2020 the population was 13,156. Portland is a part of the Nashville Metropolitan Statistica ...

. He graduated from the

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in 2001 and received a J.D. from the

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in 2004, where he was elected President of the Student Bar Association.

Career

He was an Assistant District Attorney for Sumner County. He now practices law as a private attorney in

Gallatin, Tennessee Gallatin is a city in and the county seat of Sumner County, Tennessee. The population was 30,278 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 census and 44,431 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Named for United States Secretary of the Tr ...

. He was elected as state representative for the forty-fourth district Tennessee in 2012, replacing Democratic representative Mike McDonald. He is former president of the Rotary Club of

and the Sumner County Bar Association, and former treasurer of the Republican Party of Sumner County. He is also Chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation, table host and donor to the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center in Gallatin. 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.

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, Lamberth embarked on a personal crusade to ban all forms of cannabis in Tennessee containing greater than .3% THC. This effort to ban came in spite of overwhelming public support of cannabis legalization, federal legality of non-delta 9 THC and a clear position from the FDA and USDA that delta 8 THC is not a controlled substance.

Personal life

He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth, and has two children, Allison and Pierce. He is a

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. He lives in Cottontown, Tennessee with his family.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamberth, William G. 1977 births 21st-century American politicians Living people Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives People from Sumner County, Tennessee Politicians from Bowling Green, Kentucky University of Tennessee alumni William & Mary Law School alumni