Tom Lambeth

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on November 13, 2008 - 11:44am.
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Office District Status
Endowment Chair Statewide Advocate
Party In Office Since Term Ends
Democrat 2009
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Date of Birth Birthplace Now Lives In
January 8, 1935 Clayton, NC Winston-Salem, NC

Synopsis

Tom Lambeth will head a new endowment for gubernatorial campaigns created by Gov. Beverly Perdue. A former staffer for Gov. Terry Sanford and Rep. Richardson Preyer, he headed the  Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem for 23 years and is currently a senior fellow there. In 2008, Perdue announced she would put Lambeth in charge of shepherding enabling legislation and raising money for the N.C. Endowment for Positive Gubernatorial Campaigns.

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He briefly directed a U.S. House committee on  the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1977.  

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Donna
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Three grown children, Cathy, Mark and Tom

Tom Lambeth will head a new endowment for gubernatorial campaigns created by Gov. Beverly Perdue.

Early Life and Education

Thomas Willis Lambeth was born in Clayton, N.C., in 1935, to M.T. and Ina W. Lambeth. His father was a high school principal and a housewife. 

He went to public schools in High Point, Thomasville, Washington and Statesville, graduating from Statesville Senior High School in 1953.

He earned an AB degree in history at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1957 and spent a year in graduate school there.

Military Service

After college, Lambeth served on active duty with the U.S. Army and spent seven years as a member of the Military Police Corps in the Army Reserve from 1958 to 1965.

Professional Career

From 1959 to 1960, Lambeth worked for the Winston-Salem Journal as a reporter and copy editor.

Political Career

Lambeth served on the campaign staff of gubernatorial candidate Terry Sanford in 1960 and then as assistant to the chairman of the N.C. Democratic Party.

From 1961 to 1965, he was adminstrative assistant to Governor Sanford.

From 1965 to 1969, he was an administrator at the Smith Richardson Foundation in Greensboro.

From 1969 to 1978, he worked as administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Richardson Preyer. He served as co-director of a successful campaign for an amendment to the state constitution allowing the governor to serve more than one term.

From 1978 to 2001, Lambeth served as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in Winston-Salem. He currently is a senior fellow there.

Gubernatorial Endowment

During her 2008 campaign for governor, then Lt. Gov. Perdue pledged to create the N.C. Endowment for Positive Gubernatorial Campaigns, a $50 million trust fund that would pay for campaigns that avoid negative ads and agree to a series of debates.

On Oct. 8, she announced she would put Lambeth in charge of fundraising for the endowment and ask him to lead an effort to pass enabling legislation. 

Research and reporting by Ryan Teague Beckwith. 

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