
George Earle Chamberlain (1 January 1854-9 July 1928) was the Democratic Governor of Oregon from 15 January 1903 to 28 February 1909 (succeeding Theodore Thurston Geer and preceding Frank W. Benson) and a US Senator from 4 March 1909 to 3 March 1921 (succeeding Charles W. Fulton and preceding Robert N. Stanfield).
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George Earle Chamberlain was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1854, and he received a privileged education before moving to Oregon in 1876. He worked as a teacher before serving as deputy clerk of Linn County from 1877 to 1879, served in the Linn County Rifles during the Bannock War against the Indians, and served as a Democratic district attorney and state legislator before serving as Attorney General of Oregon from 1891 to 1895. He went into banking in Albany, Oregon before serving as Governor from 1903 to 1909 and in the US Senate from 1909 to 1921; he was one of the most conservative Democrats of the 66th Congress (1919-1921). He married his longtime personal secretary in 1926 and died in Norfolk, Virginia in 1928.