19 East Main Street - J. Walter Lambeth, Jr. Home, 1902

The only native of Thomasville to serve in the U.S. Congress, J.W. Lambeth was first a state senator from 1921-1923, then elected to Congress in 1930 where he served until he retired in 1939. He attended Trinity College (now Duke University) and studied at Harvard School of Business before servicing overseas in World War I. After the war, he returned to amnage Lambeth Furniture Company with his father and was Mayor of Thomasville from 1925-1929.

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