
John Chambers (6 October 1780-21 September 1852) was a member of the US House of Representatives (NR-KY 2) from 1 December 1828 to 3 March 1829 (succeeding Thomas Metcalfe and preceding Nicholas D. Coleman) and from KY-12 from 4 March 1835 to 3 March 1839 (succeeding Thomas Alexander Marshall and preceding Garrett Davis), and the Whig Governor of the Iowa Territory from 1841 to 1845 (succeeding Robert Lucas and preceding James Clarke).
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John Chambers was born in Somerset County, New Jersey in 1780, and he was raised in Washington, Kentucky and became a lawyer in 1800 and slave holder. He served as an aide-de-camp to William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812, and he served in the State House throughout the 1810s and 1830s and as a Court of Appeals judge from 1825 to 1827. Chambers also served in the US House of Representatives from 1828 to 1829 and from 1835 to 1839, and he served as the territorial governor of Iowa from 1841 to 1845. He died in Paris, Kentucky in 1852.