William P. Lambertson

William Purnell Lambertson ( born March 23, 1880 in Fairview, Brown County, Kansas; † October 26, 1957 ) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1945 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lambertson attended the public schools in Ottawa (Kansas). He then studied at the University of Chicago, among others, Jura. However, after his studies, he worked in agriculture. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

Between 1909 and 1911, and again from 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas; in 1911 he was its president. Between 1913 and 1915 Lambertson also belonged to the State Senate. In 1917 he was chairman of a performance and the Economic Commission of his state ( Kansas State Efficiency and Economy Commission). From 1923 to 1925 he was a member of the management committee of Kansas. In the year 1922, Lambertson applied unsuccessfully within his party for the nomination for the gubernatorial elections. In 1924 and 1926, he also missed the nomination for the respective congressional elections.

In the congressional elections of 1928 he was in the first district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Daniel Read Anthony, Jr. on March 4, 1929. After seven elections he could remain until January 3, 1945 in the Congress. The most important events in this period were the Great Depression and the Second World War. In addition, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted at that time.

In 1944, Lambertson was not nominated by his party for another term. Also in 1946 he made not the intended nomination for the return to the Congress. Between April 1949 and December 1952 was Lambertson mayor of Fairview, from 1953 to 1956 he was chairman of the county council in Brown County. William Lambertson died in October 1957 in his home town of Fairview.