Clarence Chauncey Gilhams (April 11, 1860 – June 5, 1912) was an American educator and politician who served two terms as a
U.S. Representative
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from
Indiana
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from 1906 to 1909.
Biography
Born in
Brighton, Indiana
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, Gilhams attended the common local schools and
Indiana State University
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at
Terre Haute, Indiana
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and became a school teacher. He was employed as a salesman. An auditor of Lagrange County in 1894–1902, he later engaged in the life insurance business.
Congress
Gilhams was elected as a
Republican
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Political ideology
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, in 1906, 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.
Later career and death
Later, he studied law, and was
admitted to the bar
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in 1910, also resuming the life insurance business.
He died in
Lagrange, Indiana
LaGrange is a town in and the county seat of LaGrange County, Indiana, United States. The population was 2,625 at the 2010 census.
History
LaGrange was laid out and platted in 1836. It took its name from LaGrange County.
LaGrange County's init ...
, on June 5, 1912.
He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.
References
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1860 births
1912 deaths
People from LaGrange County, Indiana
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana
19th-century American politicians
Indiana State University alumni