Conor James Lamb is the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district since January 2019. Lamb was first elected to Congress from the neighboring 18th district in March 2018, in a special election against Republican Rick Saccone that attracted national attention. Lamb has been heavily involved in efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in Western Pennsylvania. He has led aggressive prosecutions involving opioid-related deaths, other violent crimes and drug and gun trafficking.
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Conor James Lamb is the U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania’s 17th congressional district since January 2019. Lamb was first elected to Congress from the neighboring 18th district in March 2018, in a special election against Republican Rick Saccone that attracted national attention. After Pennsylvania’s congressional map was redrawn by court order, Lamb filed to run for a full term in the 2017 general election, which he also won. Lamb has been heavily involved in efforts to combat the opioid epidemic in Western Pennsylvania. He has led aggressive prosecutions involving opioid-related deaths, other violent crimes and drug and gun trafficking. Lamb is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as a captain. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a B. A. degree in political science, and earned a J. D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2009. His grandfather was the Democratic Majority Leader in the Pennsylvania State Senate and later Secretary of Legislative Affairs under Governor Robert P. Casey. His uncle is the Controller of the City of Pittsburgh, and was previously the Prothonotary of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The Lamb family has been active in Pittsburgh-area politics for many years, and Conor’s father is a former mayor of the city of Pittsburgh and former Pittsburgh City Council member. He was born in Washington, D. C., on June 27, 1984, to Thomas F. Lamb Jr. and Katie Lamb, and grew up in Mt. Lebanon, a suburb in the south hills of Pittsburgh. He graduated from Central Catholic High School in 2002, and attended St. Bernard School in Pittsburgh in 2006. He served as a Marine Corps Officer Candidates School before being commissioned as a Judge Advocate. In 2013, Lamb was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney in the Department of Justice’s Pittsburgh office. In a high-profile case in 2017, he prosecuted and convicted a Marine officer who had lied under oath and to The Washington Post about a sexual misconduct case. In 2016, Lamb gained a convictions against two Pittsburgh residents, Brandon Goode and Mychael Goode, who acted as a gun trafficker to funnel hundreds of illegal weapons into New York City and West Virginia. He also secured a conviction against Andre Saunders, a drug dealer from Fayette County, who imported hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and heroin from the West Coast.
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