Career
From 1946 to 1956, Lamb joined the Lincoln County Commission until he was elected to the senate. In 1956, Lamb represented Lincoln County and in 1965 Lamb moved to Las Vegas where he represented Clark County and served as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee until 1983. In 1977, Floyd Lamb convinced Nevada Legislature to acquire Tule Springs Park from the then financially troubled city of Las Vegas, and the park was later renamed Floyd Lamb State Park.
Lamb and other Nevada politicians were convicted in 1983 of taking a $23,000 bribe in an Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation (Operation Yobo).
Lamb spent nine months in prison, then he was paroled and his civil rights were restored by the state Pardons Board.
