Clarence Chauncey Gilhams (April 11, 1860 – June 5, 1912) was an American educator and politician who served two terms as a

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from

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from 1906 to 1909.

Biography

Born in

Brighton, Indiana Brighton is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, Greenfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana, LaGrange County, Indiana. History Brighton was originally called Lexington, and under th ...

, Gilhams attended the common local schools and

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at Terre Haute, Indiana 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

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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

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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 initi ...

, on June 5, 1912. He was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilhams, Clarence Chauncey 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