Lambert C. Mims was born in 1930 in Uriah, Alabama. He moved to Mobile, Alabama, in 1949 and worked as a salesman before co-founding, a year later, a feed company, and, in 1965, branching out on his own. Lambert Mims was public works commissioner and rotating mayor of Mobile from 1965 to 1985. During Mims' time as mayor/commissioner, the city of Mobile experienced the latter part of the modern civil rights movement, completed the Bayway, and unveiled the George C. Wallace Tunnel. It opened Mobile Greyhound Park and saw the Southern Market/City Hall designated a national historic landmark. It reconstructed and opened Fort Condé and celebrated the nation's bicentennial. It witnessed the devastating destruction of hurricanes Camille and Frederic and saw the first oil well drilled in the bay. It witnessed the completion of the I-65 link across the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and celebrated the opening of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. When first elected, Mims was the youngest city commissioner in Mobile's history. Upon leaving office, Governor George Wallace appointed Mims as his ambassador to the Alabama Waterways Development Agency, a position he held from 1985 until March 1987, and one in which he promoted the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. In 1990, a federal jury convicted Mims on two counts of extortion in connection with racketeering under the Hobbs Act. He served several years in federal prison before being released. Prior to his conviction, Lambert Mims was president of the American Public Works Association (1979-1980). He is also the former director of both the Alabama Baptist Brotherhood and the Alabama Baptist State Convention. He has served as president of the advisory board for the Waterfront Rescue Mission and of the Masonic Breakfast Club. In addition, he has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of West Mobile and a deacon at Riverside Baptist Church. Mims has been featured in Baptist Men's Journal, Contact, Moody Monthly, The Deacon, Grit, APWA Reporter, Solid Waste Management, and Vital Speeches. He is also the author of two books, For Christ and Country (Old Tappan, N.J., 1969) and Mayor on Mission: From the Cotton Patch to City Hall (Coral Springs, Fla., 2005).
Dads Against Dirt was a state-wide organization formed in 1970 by various church laymen. Its goals were to fight the spread pornographic material and to strengthen laws against pornographic distribution. The last correspondence from the group is dated 1973.
From the description of Mayoral papers, 1820-2003 (inclusive) bulk 1965-1989. (University of South Alabama). WorldCat record id: 261213296
