Robert Chamberlin | |
State House: | South Dakota |
District: | 35th |
Term Start: | 1955 |
Term End: | 1960 |
Birth Date: | 7 June 1920 |
Birth Place: | Hecla, South Dakota |
Death Place: | Kernersville, North Carolina |
Party: | Democratic |
Spouse: | Jane Dorothy Pope |
Children: | Merritt Pope Chamberlin, Deborah Chamberlin Ahlman |
Alma Mater: | University of Wisconsin |
Robert Mather Chamberlin (June 7, 1920 - September 10, 2013) was an American politician in the state of South Dakota who was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1955 to 1964.[1] Chamberlin was an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin and also attended the University of Southern California for his first two years of college on a baseball scholarship. He was a farmer/cattle rancher in Hecla, South Dakota and served as mayor of Hecla. He was also a former high school teacher in Orlando, Florida. He served in the Navy as a pilot during World War II in the Pacific earning a Silver Star.[2] He also ran as a Democratic candidate for Governor of South Dakota in the 1966 and 1968 elections. He died in 2013, aged 93.[3]