Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Chambers graduated from Princeton College (now Princeton University) in 1844.
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
Chambers graduated from Princeton College (now Princeton University) in 1844.
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1864
Henry Cousins Chambers was born on July 26, 1823, in Limestone County, Alabama, United States. He was the son of Henry H. Chambers. His father practiced medicine in Alabama and also served that state as a Democrat in the United States Senate. All that is known of the younger Chambers' early life is that his father died in 1826 and that his mother raised him.
Chambers graduated from Princeton College (now Princeton University) in 1844.
Chambers settled in Robson Landing, Mississippi, and became a successful planter.
It is not known whether he had a prewar public career, although he was recorded as a secessionist. When the Civil War began, he joined the Mississippi Army and eventually rose to the rank of colonel.
He saw action in northern Mississippi and Alabama, but the extent of that action is not known. In late 1861, he killed William A. Lake in a duel over the campaign for election to the Confederate House. Chambers was elected to the Congress in the Fourth Mississippi Congressional District and was reelected in 1864.
Henry held positions on the Conference, Flag and Seal, Impressments, Military Affairs, and Commerce Committees. When the war ended Chambers returned to Mississippi where he attempted to plant on his ruined lands.
In late 1865, Henry was elected to the United States House of Representatives, but the national Congress refused to seat him. Under political restrictions, Chambers never really recovered from the hardships of the war. He retired to his plantation in Bolivar County.
Henry Cousins Chambers is known for his military service during the Civil War which led him to the rank of Colonel. He was a presidential elector for the ticket of Breckenridge and Lane and then became a Representative from Mississippi in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress.
Chambers was a Davis administration supporter.
While in Congress he proposed a plan to supervise impressments, the question of illegal impressments having caused much trouble in his own state.
Henry Chambers married Susan Alyda Young, by whom he had three children.
