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THOMAS D. LAMBERT

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to prepare resolutions commemorating the life, character, and public services of Thomas Lambert, late of Sabula, Iowa, begs leave to submit the following report:

Thomas Lambert, son of Thomas D. Lambert and Sarah Guenther Lambert, was born near Sabula, Iowa, February 13, 1853. In 1880 he became part owner of the Sabula Gazette, later owning and running it and also the Bellevue Herald in partnership with Mr. Brandt, and continued in the newspaper business for many years.

He served as County Recorder four times and as Mayor for eight consecutive times; was justice of the peace for about twenty years; was elected secretary of the school board and held the office continuously until his resignation in 1909 when his appointment to the State Board of Education required his absence from the city.

His political affiliations were always with the democratic party; he attended the national convention at St. Louis that nominated Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman. He was a member of the House of Representatives in the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, the extra session of the Twenty-sixth, and the Twenty-seventh; and in the Senate during the sessions of the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, Thirty-first and Thirty-second General Assemblies.

In the Thirty-first General Assembly, Mr. Lambert was appointed one of a committee to sit during the interval between sessions and make a thorough investigation into the needs of the three educational institutions of the state, the University, the Agricultural College, and the State Normal School. He was afterward made a member of the finance committee of these schools and devoted himself to these duties until the year of his death.

Mr. Lambert also held many offices in the various lodges of which he was a member, the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, the Knights of Pythias, and the Masons, in which order he served as Grand Master for the jurisdiction of Iowa.

On August 8, 1883, occurred the marriage of Thomas Lambert and Miss Jennie Cotton and they were the parents of one daughter, Mrs. Milton G. Gage of Cedar Rapids. Besides the wife and daughter, Mr. Lambert leaves one brother, Charles Lambert of Sabula. Mr. Lambert died at his home in Sabula, Iowa, September, 1923.

Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved By the Senate of the Forty-first General Assembly of Iowa, that in the death of Thomas Lambert the state and the community where he lived have suffered the loss of an influential and honorable citizen; and,

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the Senate and that the secretary be directed to send an engrossed copy thereof to the family of the deceased.

CHAS. S. BROWNE

C. F. JOHNSTON

F. C. GILCHRIST

Committee.