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Chamberlain, George E. (George Earle), 1854-1928

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Personal name headingChamberlain, George E. (George Earle), 1854-1928
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Variant(s)Chamberlain, Geo. E. (George Earle), 1854-1928
See alsoOregon. Governor (1903-1909 : Chamberlain)
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placePortland (Or.)
Birth date1854-01-01
Death date1928-07-09
Place of birthNatchez (Miss.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationWashington and Lee University
Oregon Bar Association
Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
Oregon. Attorney General's Office
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLawyers Legislators Governors
Found inMilitary justice, 1919: t.p. (George E. Chamberlain)
Chronology and documentary handbook of the State of Oregon, 1979: p. 13 (George Earle Chamberlain served as governor from Jan. 14, 1903 until Mar. 1, 1909) p. 22 (b. Jan. 1, 1854; d. July 9, 1928)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, November 20, 2017 (Chamberlain, 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.)