Charles E. Chamberlain

Charles Ernest Chamberlain ( born July 22, 1917 in Locke, Ingham County, Michigan; † 25 November 2002 in Leesburg, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1957 and 1974 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Chamberlain first attended the Lansing Central High School and then studied until 1941 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. During the Second World War, he served 1942-1946 in the U.S. Coast Guard, the Reserve he served until 1977. From 1946 to 1947 he was employed by the Internal Revenue Service. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia and its made ​​in 1949 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. In 1950 he became deputy prosecutor in Ingham County. After that, he was a trial lawyer of the city of East Lansing. In addition, he was legal advisor to the Legal Affairs Committee of the Senate of Michigan. In the years 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain was the first prosecutor in Ingham County.

Politically, Chamberlain member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the sixth constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Donald Hayworth on January 3, 1957. After eight re- election he was able to complete in Congress until 31 December 1974, nearly nine legislative sessions. He met four days before the official end of his last term on January 3, 1975 by his mandate back. In Chamberlain's time as a congressman fell among other things, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal. In addition, at that time were the 23rd, the 24th, the 25th and the 26th Amendment, discussed and adopted.

1974 renounced Charles Chamberlain on another candidacy. In the following years, he retired from politics. He died on 25 November 2002 in Leesburg and was buried in Lansing.