Background
Chambers, Arthur Woodburne was born on December 8, 1886 in Toms River, New Jersey, United States. Son of Elias H. and Mary Louise (Camberne) Chambers.
Chambers, Arthur Woodburne was born on December 8, 1886 in Toms River, New Jersey, United States. Son of Elias H. and Mary Louise (Camberne) Chambers.
Student Rutherford Institute, 1902-1906. Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1909.
Step-daughters, Beverly Barton (Mistress Randolph V. Hall), Barbara Barton (Mistress Elwin R. Lindsey). Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1909. Practiced in New Haven since 1909.
Member of law firm Chambers & Chambers.
Secretary to Congressman John Q. Tilson, 1912. Secretary Civil Service Commission, New Haven, 1915-1923.
Judge City Court of New Haven, 1923-1925. Trustee and chairman of board National Savings Bank, New Haven.
President State Prison and Parole Board, 1946-1955.
Communion and Water Baptism are symbolic acts of obedience to the teaching of Jesus in the New Testament.
Member of New Haven Grays and 2d Connecticut Infantry, 1910-1916. Member American, Connecticut State and New Haven County (chairman grievance committee, 1933-1956), bar associations. Mason (32 degree, Knights Templar, Shriner).
Clubs: Kiwanis, Graduate, Quinnipack.
Married Winifred Langdale Smith, June 10, 1916 (died 1928). Married second, Maude Wedmore Barton, January 20, 1931. Children: Arthur Woodburne, Gordon Phelps, Marshall Hale.