Robert Mather Chamberlin (June 7, 1920 – September 10, 2013) was an American politician in the state of

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who was a member of the

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from 1955 to 1964. Chamberlin was an alumnus of the

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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. He also ran as a Democratic candidate for

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in the 1966 and 1968 elections. He died in 2013, aged 93.

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1920 births 2013 deaths People from Brown County, South Dakota University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Democratic Party members of the South Dakota House of Representatives 20th-century members of the South Dakota Legislature {{SouthDakota-politician-stub