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Rh was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama. He was elected U. S. senator, and served from 5 Dec, 1825, until his death, which took place at the residence of his brother. Judge Edward Chambers, of the superior court of Virginia, while on his way to Washington.

CHAMBERS, John, jurist, b. about 1710 ; d. in New York, 10 April, 1765. He was a member of the executive council in 1754, and attended as one of the commissioners the congress at Albany on 14 June of that year. He was soon afterward appointed judge, and still later became the chief justice of New York.

CHAMBERS, John, governor of Iowa, b. in New Jersey, 4 Dec, 1779; d. near Paris, Ky., 21 Sept., 1852. When thirteen years of age he re- moved to Kentucky, and, settling in Washington, Mason co., studied law, was admitted to the bar, and obtained a lucrative practice. He served in the war of 1812, and in 1813 became volunteer aide to Gen. Harrison, whose election to the presidency in 1840 he earnestly promoted. He was frequently a member of the Kentucky legislature, was a mem- ber of congress in 1827-9 and 1835-'9, and gov- ernor of Iowa in 1841-'5. While acting in this latter capacity he acquired great influence among the discordant Indian tribes.

CHAMBERS, Talbot Wilson, clergyman, b. in Carlisle. Pa., 25 Feb., 1819; d. in New York city, 3 Feb.. 1896. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1834, and later at Princeton. He was licensed to preach in Clinton, Miss., in 1838, and subsequently was ordained in the Reformed Dutch classis at New Brunswick, N. J., in January, 1840, meanwhile having become pastor of the 2d Reformed Dutch church in Somerville, N. J., where he remained until 1849. In December of the latter year he was installed as one of the pastors of the collegiate Dutch church. New York, and has since regularly preached in the Lafayette place church. He was the Vedder lecturer at New Brunswick, N. J., in 1875, chairman of the committee on versions of the American Bible society, and member of the American Bible revision committee, Old-Testament company. In 1868 he was appointed a trustee of Rutgers, and in 1881 became a trustee of Colum- bia, from which institution, in 1853, he received the degree of S. T. D. His publications include, be- sides numerous pamphlets and magazine articles, "The Noon Prayer Meeting in Fulton Street" (New York, 1857) ; " Memoir of Theodore Freling- huysen " (1863) ; " Exposition of the Book of Zach- ariah" in Lange's "Commentary" (1874); "The Psalter a Witness to the Divine Origin of the Bible " (Vedder lectures, 1875) ; and " Companion to the Revised Version of the Old Testament " (1885).

CHAMBERS, William, Scottish author and publisher, b. in Peebles, Scotland, in 1800 ; d. in Edinburgh, 20 May, 1883. He was apprenticed to a printer in Edinburgh, afterward opened a book- stall, and in 1829, with his brother Robert, estab- lished a publishing-house, which became the most extensive in Scotland. They founded the " Edin- burgh Journal" in 1832, and compiled and pub- lished numerous works adapted to the wants of the people. In 1865 Wilham was made lord-pro- vost of Edinburgh. He gave his impressions of the United States in " Things as they are in America" (New York, 1854) and "Slavery and Col- or in America" (London, 1857), and compiled a " Hand-book of American Literature " (1857). See " Memoir of William and Robert Chambers " (Edin- burgh, 1872; 12th ed., 1883).

CHAMBLISS, John Randolph, soldier, b. in Hicksford, Greenville co., Va., 23 Jan., 1833 ; d. in Deep Bottom, near Richmond, Va., 16 Aug., 1864. His father, John R. Chambliss, was a delegate to the Virginia secession convention of 1861. Young Chambliss was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1853, and served at the cavalry school, Carlisle, Pa., till 4 March, 1854, when he resigned. He then became a planter at Hicksford, Va., was major on the staff of the governor from 1856 till 1861, and colonel in the militia from 1858 till 1861. He joined the Confederate army at the beginning of the civil war as colonel of an infantry regiment, and afterward became colonel of the 18th Virginia cavalry. He was subsequently made a brigadier- general, and was killed in action while leading a brigade of cavalry.

'''CHAMBLISS. William Parham''', soldier, b. in Chamblissburg, Va.. 20 March, 1827; d. in Coburg, Can., 23 Feb., 1887. After attending a private school, he served through the Mexican war as second lieu- tenant in the 1st Tennessee volunteers from June, 1846, till July, 1847, and afterward as captain of the 3d Tennessee volunteers. From 1850 till 1855 he practised law in Pulaski, Tenn., and from 1852 till 1855 edited there the " Citizen," a democratic weekly newspaper. He was also a member of the legishiture from 1853 till 1854. He entered the regular army as first lieutenant in the 2d cavalry, 3 March, 1855, and was engaged in Texas against hostile Indians most of the time till March, 1861. He was made captain in the 5th cavalry, 6 April, 1861, and served through the Manassas and penin- sular campaigns, receiving the brevet of major, 4 May, 1862, for gallantry at Hanover Court-House, Va. At the battle of Gaines's Mills, 27 June, 1862, he was wounded in several places, lay four days and four nights on the field of battle, and was then taken to Libby prison, Richmond. For his conduct at Gaines's Mills he was brevetted lieuten- ant-colonel on 28 June, 1862. The wounds that he received on this occasion nearly caused his death, and have partially disabled him for the rest of his life. After his release from Libby prison he underwent treatment in St. Luke's hospital. New York, and then served as instructor of cavalry at the U. S. military academy from October, 1862, till June, 1864. He was made major in the 4th caval- ry, 30 March, 1864, served as special inspector of cavalry, division of the Mississippi, from August, 1864, till April, 1865, and with his regiment in Texas till 1 Nov., 1867, when he resigned and be- came president and general manager of the Co- bourg railway and mining company, Cobourg, Canada. He has published a pamphlet on " Gen. McClellan and the Presidency " (1864).

CHAMBODLT, Louis Claude Marie (sham-bo-dew), clergyman, b. in St. Just-en-Chevalet, France, in 1821 : d. in Galveston, Texas, in 1880. He studied theology in the seminary of Lyons, and, after being ordained deacon, came to the United States in 1845. He was made a priest in St. Louis in 1846, and in 1847 erected a church in Nacog- doches, of which he became pastor. In 1851 he was summoned to the cathedral of Galveston, ap- pointed vicar-general of the diocese, and made ad- ministrator of the diocese, when Bishop Odin was transferred to New Orleans. During the war he was unremitting in his care of the wounded, and founded several charitable institutions.

CHAMORRO, Frutos (chah-mor'-ro). Central American statesman, b. in Guatemala in 1806; d. 12 March, 1855. He belonged to an old and wealthy Spanish family, but joined the national cause, and became a member of the legislature of Nicaragua and of the constituent assembly, and a senator (1838- '42) ; and when, in 1843, an attempt