Edward A. Lambert

Edward Augustus Lambert (June 10, 1813 – September 7, 1885) was an American politician and Mayor of Brooklyn.

Life Lambert was born on June 10, 1813, in New York City, New York. His father, master of a merchant ship, was lost at sea with his vessel when Lambert was young. He then began to work on his own from the age of 12, first as a clerk for an importing house then. In 1832, he began working in the stationery business.

Lambert moved to Brooklyn in 1846. In 1878 he began experience financial troubles, and by the time he died his health and spirit were broken.

Lambert became a member of the Central Presbyterian Church of New York in 1830. In 1831, he was one of the 32 organizers of the Third Free Presbyterian Church of New York. The church was later known as the Houston Street Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Samuel D. Buchard as the pastor, and then moved to Thirteenth Street. When Lambert moved to Brooklyn, he joined the South Presbyterian Church there. In 1857, he helped organize the Park Presbyterian Church, later known as the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, with Theodore L. Cuyler as the pastor. He was an elder for the Houston Street Church, the South Presbyterian Church, and the Lafayette Avenue Church, and served as a Commissioner to the General Assemblies of 1855, 1862, 1866, 1868, and 1870.

Lambert died at home on September 7, 1885. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.