Clarence C. Gilhams
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Clarence Chauncey Gilhams (April 11, 1860 - June 5, 1912) was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Born in Brighton, Indiana, Gilhams attended the common schools and the State normal school at Terre Haute, Indiana. He taught school. He was employed as a salesman. Auditor of Lagrange County 1894-1902. He engaged in the life insurance business.
Gilhams was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Newton W. Gilbert. He was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served from November 6, 1906, to March 3, 1909. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1910. He resumed the life insurance business. He died in Lagrange, Indiana, June 5, 1912. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
