Robert Eneas Lamberton
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Robert Eneas Lamberton was a U.S.
Republican politician
who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1940 to 1941.
He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1934. He ran successfully for Philadelphia mayor against Robert C. White, a Democrat, garnering 398,384 votes to White's 361,143.
Lamberton died in office, and Bernard Samuel
became acting mayor upon his death.
Several years later, a school was named after him in Philadelphia's Overbrook Park section. The school has been called Robert E. Lamberton Public School, Lamberton Public School, Robert E. Lamberton High School, Robert E. Lamberton Eastern Early College High School, and Lamberton High School.
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Republican politician
Politician
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who served as mayor of Philadelphia from 1940 to 1941.
He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie,...
, and ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1934. He ran successfully for Philadelphia mayor against Robert C. White, a Democrat, garnering 398,384 votes to White's 361,143.
Lamberton died in office, and Bernard Samuel
Bernard Samuel
Bernard "Barney" Samuel was a Republican Pennsylvania politician who served as mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1941 to 1952....
became acting mayor upon his death.
Several years later, a school was named after him in Philadelphia's Overbrook Park section. The school has been called Robert E. Lamberton Public School, Lamberton Public School, Robert E. Lamberton High School, Robert E. Lamberton Eastern Early College High School, and Lamberton High School.