Charles E. Chamberlain

Charles Ernest Chamberlain (July 22, 1917–November 25, 2002) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.

Chamberlain was born in Locke Township, Michigan and after graduating from Lansing Central High School in Lansing, went on to earn a B.S. degree in 1941 from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He earned an LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1949.

During World War II, Chamberlain served in the United States Coast Guard, 1942-1946, and afterwards in the United States Coast Guard Reserve, 1946-1977. He worked as a lawyer in private practice and as an Internal Revenue Service agent in the United States Treasury Department, 1946-1947. He was assistant prosecutor for Ingham County, Michigan in 1950 and city attorney of East Lansing and legal counsel to the Michigan State Senate judiciary committee in 1953 and 1954. He was prosecuting attorney for Ingham County, 1955-1956.

In 1956, Chamberlain defeated incumbent Democrat Donald Hayworth to be elected as a Republican from Michigan's 6th congressional district to the Eighty-fifth Congress. He was re-elected to the eight succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1957 until December 31, 1974. He was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974, being succeeded in office by Democrat Bob Carr.

Chamberlain died in Leesburg, Virginia of renal failure and congestive heart failure. He is interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan. He had been a member of the American Legion, the Society of the Cincinnati, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Kiwanis.

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Preceded by Donald Hayworth	United States Representative for the 6th Congressional District of Michigan 1957 – 1974	Succeeded by Bob Carr