Charles Ernest CHAMBERLAIN, Congress, MI (1917-2002)

CHAMBERLAIN, Charles Ernest, a Representative from Michigan; born in Locke Township, Ingham County, Mich., July 22, 1917; graduated from Lansing Central High School, Lansing, Mich.; B.S., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 1941; LL.B., University of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, Va., 1949; United States Coast Guard, 1942-1946; United States Coast Guard Reserves, 1946-1977; lawyer, private practice; Internal Revenue agent, United States Treasury Department, 1946-1947; assistant prosecutor, Ingham County, Mich., 1950; city attorney of East Lansing, Mich., and legal counsel to Michigan state senate judiciary committee, 1953 and 1954; prosecuting attorney of Ingham County, Mich., 1955-1956; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1957-December 31, 1974); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; died on November 25, 2002, in Leesburg, Va.; interment in Evergreen Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present