Ebenezer M. Chamberlain

Ebenezer Mattoon Chamberlain ( born August 20, 1805 in Orrington, Penobscot County, Maine, † March 14, 1861 in Goshen, Indiana ) was an American politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ebenezer Chamberlain attended the common schools and worked in the yard of his father. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1832 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in Elkhart County, Indiana in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1835 to 1837 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana; 1839-1842 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1842, he was prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Indiana. From 1843 to 1853 he served as a judge in this district. In 1844, Chamberlain was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, was nominated on the James K. Polk as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1852 Chamberlain was in the tenth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Brenton on March 4, 1853. Until March 3, 1855, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Ebenezer Chamberlain worked as a lawyer in Goshen. He is also passed on 14 March 1861.