Ezekiel F. Chambers

Ezekiel F. Chambers

Ezekiel Forman Chambers (born February 28, 1788 in Chestertown , Kent County , Maryland , †  January 30, 1867 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Maryland in the US Senate .

Life

Ezekiel Chambers, a native of northeast Maryland, graduated from Washington College in his hometown of Chestertown in 1805 . He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1808, after which he began to practice in Chestertown as a lawyer. During the British-American War he served with the rank of captain in the Maryland militia, commanding a company at the Battle of Caulk's Field in 1814. He was then promoted to brigadier general.

Chambers held his first political mandate in 1822 when he was a member of the Maryland Senate . After the resignation of Edward Lloyd he was elected as a member of the National Republican Party to his successor and initially completed the remainder of the term from January 24, 1826 to March 4, 1830. He was then confirmed in the regular election in office and remained up to his own resignation on December 20, 1834 in Congress in Washington, DC intermittently he chaired the Committee for the District of Columbia .

After his retirement from the Senate, Chambers took over the presidency of the Court of Justice for the Maryland Second District Court. From 1834 to 1851 he was a judge on the state's highest court, the Maryland Court of Appeals . In 1864, after he had switched to the Democrats in the meantime, he unsuccessfully applied for the office of governor of Maryland. He died three years later in Chestertown.

Web links

• Ezekiel F. Chambers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Ezekiel F. Chambers in the database of Find a Grave (English)