Paul C. Lambert (born March 14, 1928) was the United States Ambassador to Ecuador from 1990 to 1992.
[1][2] He submitted his resignation in December 1991 saying Ecuador is “a country plagued by corruption and excessive bureaucracy.”[3] Lambert was born in New York City on March 14, 1928.
Lambert began working as a lawyer in 1955 with the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy in New York City.
From 1966 to 1990, Lambert was a partner of Breed, Abbott & Morgan leaving when he became a United States Ambassador.
During his legal career, Lambert “has been involved in some of the most significant estate and trust litigations of the last several decades, including Matter of Rothko, Estate of J. Seward Johnson, Matter of Stillman and Matter of Rockefeller.”[5] Long active in New York State politics, Lambert was a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Republican Party from 1983 to 1990 and served as a Steering Committee and Finance Committee member of the 1988 George Bush for President election campaign.