Webb Lambert Biography


	This biography appears on page 278 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				WEBB LAMBERT.

	The great northwest with its pulsing industrial activities and 
its limitless opportunities for agricultural, commercial and 
professional advancement is constantly drawing to it men of capability 
and ambition who find here scope for their activities and in so doing 
contribute to the upbuilding and prosperity of the state. In this 
connection Webb Lambert is well known. He is now filling the position 
of states attorney for Stanley county, having entered upon the duties 
of the office in January, 1913. He is a native of Randolph county, West 
Virginia, and a son of the Rev. James W. and Susan M. (Schoonover) 
Lambert, the former a Methodist minister connected with the Iowa 
conference. The family removed to the west during the boyhood of Webb 
Lambert and he had the advantage of a classical course in the Iowa 
Wesleyan College at Mount Pleasant from which he was graduated with the 
Bachelor of Arts degree. He determined upon the practice of law, 
however, as his life work and with that end in view entered the 
University of Nebraska, in which he won his LL. B. degree. In early 
manhood he took up the profession of teaching and proved a capable 
educator, imparting readily and clearly to others the knowledge that he 
had acquired, but he regarded teaching merely as an initial step to 
other professional labors and after preparing for the bar entered at 
once upon the active practice of law. He has made continuous progress 
in that connection, his ability being attested by the court records 
which indicate his successful handling of many important and involved 
legal problems. In January, 1913, he became states attorney of Stanley 
county, and he was reelected in November, 1914, for a second term.  

	Mr. Lambert was married January 10, 1911, to Mrs. Ola (Ackerman) 
Edwards, of Williamsburg, Iowa. He is a republican in politics and his 
military record covers service with the Fiftieth Iowa Volunteer 
Infantry at the time of the Spanish-American war. Fraternally he is 
connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and with the Masons and has many 
friends both within and without those organizations, to the teachings 
of which he is ever consistently loyal.