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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonGeorge Earle CHAMBERLAIN
(1854-1928)
Senate Years of Service:
1909-1921Party: DemocratCHAMBERLAIN, George Earle,
(grandson of Stevenson Archer [1786-1848], great-grandson of John
Archer), a Senator from Oregon; born on a plantation near Natchez,
Adams County, Miss., January 1, 1854; attended private and public
schools in Natchez; clerk in a general merchandise store in Natchez
1870-1872; was graduated from Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va., in 1876; moved to Oregon in 1876 and taught school
in Linn County; deputy clerk of Linn County from 1877 to 1879, when
he resigned; was admitted to the bar in 1879 and commenced the
practice of law in Albany, Linn County, Oreg.; member, State house
of representatives 1880-1882; district attorney for the third
judicial district 1884-1886; appointed and subsequently elected
attorney general of Oregon 1891-1894; continued the practice of law
in Portland; district attorney for the fourth judicial district
1900-1902; elected Governor of Oregon in 1902 and reelected in
1906, but resigned in 1908 having been elected Senator; elected in
1908 as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1914
and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection to the Senate in 1920; chairman, Committee
on Geological Survey (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Military
Affairs (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on
Public Lands (Sixty-third Congress), Committee on Expenditures in
the War Department (Sixty-sixth Congress); member of the United
States Shipping Board 1921-1923; engaged in the practice of law in
Washington, D.C., and died there on July 9, 1928; interment in
Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Robert, Frank. ‘The
Public Speaking of George Earle Chamberlain, A Study of the
Utilization of Speech by a Prominent Politician.’ Ph.D.
dissertation, Stanford University, 1955.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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