Lamb, John
soldier, congressman, was born June 12, 1840, in Sussex county, Va. At the first alarm of war in 1860 he went to the front as a volunteer in the Charles City troop; and served through the entire war with distinguished gallantry. After the war he returned to his native county and took up the business of farming; was soon elected sheriff of his county, and subsequently served his people as treasurer, surveyor and chairman of the county democratic committee. He was elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a democrat.