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(Redirected from William G. Lamberth) American politician (born 1977)
William Lamberth
Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 8, 2019
Preceded byGlen Casada
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
from the 44th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 8, 2013
Preceded byMike McDonald
Personal details
BornWilliam Gary Lamberth
(1977-12-05) December 5, 1977 (age 47)
Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
SpouseLauren Lamberth
Children2
EducationUniversity of Tennessee (BA)
College of William and Mary (JD)

William Gary Lamberth (born December 5, 1977) is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the forty-fourth district, encompassing parts of Sumner County, Tennessee.

Biography

Early life

He was born on December 5, 1977, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He is a fifth generation resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and grew up on a farm in Tennessee. He attended Portland High School. 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.

Career

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

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 Gallatin, Tennessee, 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.

In 2023, Lamberth supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented.

Controversial legislation

In 2022, after accepting over $50,000 in campaign donations from Jack Daniel's 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.

Lamberth has been criticized by the LGBT community for supporting bills to criminalize doctors performing gender reassignment surgery on minors, requiring transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to their biological sex, and requiring transgender athletes in high school to compete in collegiate sports that correspond to their biological sex.

Personal life

He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth, and has two children. He is a Baptist. He lives in Cottontown, Tennessee, with his family.

References

  1. ^ Tennessee General Assembly
  2. ^ Campaign website
  3. ^ William Lamberth's victory restores TN District 44 seat to GOP, The Tennessean, November 06, 2012
  4. ^ Lamberth '04 Elected to Tennessee State House, William & Mary Law School, November 07, 2012
  5. Andone, Dakin; Young, Ryan; Simonson, Amy; Almasy, Steve. "Tennessee's Republican-led House expels 2 Democratic lawmakers over gun reform protest, fails in bid to oust a third". CNN. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
  6. Entity Details LAMBERTH, WILLIAM G Individual. "Lamberth, William G". FollowTheMoney.org. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  7. "Tennessee lawmakers debate making most Delta-8 THC illegal in the state". 24 March 2022.
  8. "Tennessee General Assembly Legislation".
  9. "Power Poll: About 88% of people surveyed support legalizing marijuana in some form across Tennessee". 19 September 2019.
  10. ^ "Farm Bill".
  11. "Is D8 from Hemp a Controlled Substance? DEA Says "No". | Kight on Cannabis".
  12. Gainey, Blaise (2023-01-31). "Republicans advance bills targeting transgender treatments and drag shows at contentious first hearings". wpln.org. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  13. ""Bathroom bill" to take effect with LGBTQ community cautiously monitoring". News Channel 5 Nashville (WTVF). 2019-06-28. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  14. "Tennessee General Assembly Legislation". wapp.capitol.tn.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-16.
Tennessee House of Representatives
Preceded byGlen Casada Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives
2019–present 		Incumbent
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Minority leaders
United States House of Representatives: ▌Hakeem Jeffries (D)
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Political party affiliations
▌Democratic: 27 states
▌Republican: 21 states, 2 territories
▌Independent: 1 state
▌ New Progressive: 1 territory
An asterisk (*) indicates a unicameral body.
Members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
113th General Assembly (2023–2025)
Speaker of the House
Cameron Sexton (R)
Speaker pro tempore
Pat Marsh (R)
Deputy Speaker
Curtis Johnson (R)
Majority Leader
William Lamberth (R)
Minority Leader
Karen Camper (D)
  1. ▌John Crawford (R)
  2. ▌Bud Hulsey (R)
  3. ▌Timothy Hill (R)
  4. ▌John Holsclaw Jr. (R)
  5. ▌David Hawk (R)
  6. ▌Tim Hicks (R)
  7. ▌Rebecca Alexander (R)
  8. ▌Jerome Moon (R)
  9. ▌Gary W. Hicks (R)
  10. ▌Rick Eldridge (R)
  11. ▌Jeremy Faison (R)
  12. ▌Dale Carr (R)
  13. ▌Robert Stevens (R)
  14. ▌Jason Zachary (R)
  15. ▌Sam McKenzie (D)
  16. ▌Michele Carringer (R)
  17. ▌Andrew Farmer (R)
  18. ▌Elaine Davis (R)
  19. ▌Dave Wright (R)
  20. ▌Bryan Richey (R)
  21. ▌Lowell Russell (R)
  22. ▌Dan Howell (R)
  23. ▌Mark Cochran (R)
  24. ▌Kevin Raper (R)
  25. ▌Cameron Sexton (R)
  26. ▌Greg Martin (R)
  27. ▌Patsy Hazlewood (R)
  28. ▌Yusuf Hakeem (D)
  29. ▌Greg Vital (R)
  30. ▌Esther Helton (R)
  31. ▌Ron Travis (R)
  32. ▌Monty Fritts (R)
  33. ▌John Ragan (R)
  34. ▌Tim Rudd (R)
  35. ▌William Slater (R)
  36. ▌Dennis Powers (R)
  37. ▌Charlie Baum (R)
  38. ▌Kelly Keisling (R)
  39. ▌Iris Rudder (R)
  40. ▌Michael Hale (R)
  41. ▌Ed Butler (R)
  42. ▌Ryan Williams (R)
  43. ▌Paul Sherrell (R)
  44. ▌William Lamberth (R)
  45. ▌Johnny Garrett (R)
  46. ▌Clark Boyd (R)
  47. ▌Rush Bricken (R)
  48. ▌Bryan Terry (R)
  49. ▌Mike Sparks (R)
  50. ▌Bo Mitchell (D)
  51. ▌Aftyn Behn (D)
  52. ▌Justin Jones (D)
  53. ▌Jason Powell (D)
  54. ▌Vincent B. Dixie (D)
  55. ▌John Ray Clemmons (D)
  56. ▌Bob Freeman (D)
  57. ▌Susan Lynn (R)
  58. ▌Harold Love Jr. (D)
  59. ▌Caleb Hemmer (D)
  60. ▌Darren Jernigan (D)
  61. ▌Gino Bulso (R)
  62. ▌Pat Marsh (R)
  63. ▌Jake McCalmon (R)
  64. ▌Scott Cepicky (R)
  65. ▌Sam Whitson (R)
  66. ▌Sabi Kumar (R)
  67. ▌Ronnie Glynn (D)
  68. ▌Curtis Johnson (R)
  69. ▌Jody Barrett (R)
  70. ▌Clay Doggett (R)
  71. ▌Kip Capley (R)
  72. ▌Kirk Haston (R)
  73. ▌Chris Todd (R)
  74. ▌Jay Reedy (R)
  75. ▌Jeff Burkhart (R)
  76. ▌Tandy Darby (R)
  77. ▌Rusty Grills (R)
  78. ▌Mary Littleton (R)
  79. ▌Brock Martin (R)
  80. ▌Johnny Shaw (D)
  81. ▌Debra Moody (R)
  82. ▌Chris Hurt (R)
  83. ▌Mark White (R)
  84. ▌Joe Towns (D)
  85. ▌Jesse Chism (D)
  86. ▌Justin Pearson (D)
  87. ▌Karen Camper (D)
  88. ▌Larry Miller (D)
  89. ▌Justin Lafferty (R)
  90. ▌Gloria Johnson (D)
  91. ▌Torrey Harris (D)
  92. ▌Todd Warner (R)
  93. ▌G. A. Hardaway (D)
  94. ▌Ron Gant (R)
  95. ▌Kevin Vaughan (R)
  96. ▌Dwayne Thompson (D)
  97. ▌John Gillespie (R)
  98. ▌Antonio Parkinson (D)
  99. ▌Tom Leatherwood (R)
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