Hillsborough County FlArchives Biographies.....Lambright, Edwin D. May 21, 1874 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.73-74  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        EDWIN D. LAMBRIGHT, postmaster of Tampa, is one of the sterling men and 
capable officials of the city of which he is so important a citizen, and his 
efforts in his behalf are not confined to the service of his office, but extend 
to every avenue of progress connected with its development. He was born at 
Brunswick, Georgia, May 21, 1874, a son of JOSEPH E. and JULIA S. (DART) 
LAMBRIGHT, both natives of Georgia. Although he died when only thirty-six years
of age, JOSEPH E. LAMBRIGHT was a very prominent man, both as a merchant and in
public life, serving as sheriff of his county and marshal of Brunswick for some
years. His widow survives him and still makes her home at Brunswick, Georgia. 
They had three children, namely: Mrs. JOSEPH P. BENNETT, of Savannah, Georgia; 
JOSEPH E., editor and owner of the Brunswick Daily Banner; and EDWIN D., who
was the firstborn.
	Growing up at Brunswick, EDWIN D. LAMBRIGHT attended its public 
schools, and subsequently took a course at Emory College, then located at 
Oxford, but now located at Atlanta, Georgia. In 1893 he entered the newspaper 
business in Brunswick as a reporter on a local paper, and displayed such 
ability that when only twenty-two years of age he was made editor of the 
Brunswick Times, and remained with that journal until 1899, when he came to 
Tampa and secured a position on the Tampa Tribune. Until 1917 he maintained his 
connection with this paper, first the city editor and later as managing editor, 
but severed it to assume the duties of the office when he was appointed 
postmaster by President Wilson to fill a vacancy, and in 1918 was reappointed 
to fill a regular four year term. He has long been one of the leading democrats 
of the state, and was a delegate to the convention at Baltimore, Maryland, 
which nominated Woodrow Wilson for the presidency in 1912. During the late war 
he was president of the Rotary Club of Tampa, and as such had charge of much of 
the club’s war work. As chairman of the War Savings Stamp campaigns he did 
excellent work in behalf of the cause, and was otherwise useful in aiding the 
administration to carry out its policies, including an aggressive campaign as a 
Four-Minute Speaker. He was one of the charter members of Tampa Lodge No. 708,
B. P. O. E., and is enthusiastic in behalf of that order.	
	In 1903 Mr. Lambright married CANNIE FINCH, a native of Georgia, and a 
daughter of JAMES B. FINCH. Mr. and Mrs. Lambright have one daughter, MARY 
WALLACE, who was a student of the State College for Woman at Tallahassee, 
Florida. A man of liberal views and wide vision, Mr. Lambright’s long
association with newspaper work has broadened him and made him humanely
tolerant of others. Since he took charge of the Tampa post office he has
greatly improved the service, and during the war, and the equally trying epoch
of the reconstruction days, proved to the people of his home city that he was
exactly the right man in the right place. Having come to Tampa in vigorous
young manhood, he has grown with it, and has given to it and its enterprises
the benefit of his enthusiasm, zeal and efficient support, and there is no man
in this region more deserving of praise for his consistent and persistent
public work.


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