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CHAMBERS Vol. 3, p. 1086 A member of what is uniformly recognized as one of the leading law firms of the State of Oklahoma, that of Ames, Chambers, Lowe & Richardson, with offices at 512-529 American National Bank Building, Oklahoma City, the professional prestige of Mr. CHAMBERS is based alike upon his high ethical ideals, his long and varied experience and his distinctive achievement in the work of his chosen vocation. He has been a resident of Oklahoma City since 1895 and had gained prominence and influence at the territorial bar fully a decade prior to the admission of the state to the Union, even as he had previously been influential in professional and public activities in the State of Kansas. Mr. CHAMBERS was born at Charleston, the judicial center of Coles County, Illinois, in the year 1861, and is a son of Dr. William M. and Mary (INGELS) Chambers. His father was long an honored and representative physician and surgeon of Illinois and established his residence at Charleston, that state, in 1858. During the progress of the Civil war Dr. CHAMBERS rendered effective service in behalf of the Union by having the supervision of the Federal Hospital maintained in the City of Nashville, Tennessee. He continued his residence at Charleston, Illinois, for nearly forty years, and there his death occurred in November 1892. Mrs. Mary (INGELS) CHAMBERS was summoned to the life eternal in 1877. The public schools of Illinois afforded to Thomas G. CHAMBERS his early educational advantages, and in 1884 he was graduated in Depauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, from which institution he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. In preparation for his chosen profession he was matriculated in the St. Louis Law School, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1886 and from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws, with incidental admission to the bar of the State of Missouri. In the autumn of the same year Mr. Chambers engaged in the practice of his profession at Coldwater, Comanche County, Kansas, and he continued one of the leading members of the bar of that county for nearly nine years. In 1893, as candidate on the straight democratic ticket, he was elected a representative of the Comanche County in the Kansas Legislature, and in the ensuing general assembly he was one of the three democratic stalwarts who held the balance of power in the legislative body, the session having been one of unusual importance in the legislative and political annals of the Sunflower State. In 1895 Mr. Chambers came to Oklahoma Territory and engaged in the practice of his profession in Oklahoma City, which has since continued the state of his able and successful endeavors. He has appeared in connection with many important litigation's in both the territorial and state courts, as well as in the Oklahoma federal courts, and though he has been retained in some of the notable criminal cases in this field of practice, he has given his preference to the civil branch of practice, in which his versatility and resourcefulness as an advocate have given him specially high standing at the bar of the state, with secure place in the confidence and esteem of his professional confreres. In April, 1907, the year that marked the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, Mr. CHAMBERS was chosen city attorney of Oklahoma City, but after serving one year he resigned this office to devote his undivided attention to the private practice of his profession. In 1909 he became a member of the law firm of Ames, Flynn & Chambers, and since 1911 he has been a member of the firm of Ames, Chambers, Lowe & Richardson. Mr. Chambers has taken a vital and loyal interest in all that has conserved the civic and material welfare of Oklahoma, and has been signally progressive and public-spirited, the while he has viewed with great satisfaction the marvelous development and upbuilding of the vigorous western common wealth within whose borders he has maintained his home for a score of years. He still accords unfaltering allegiance to the democratic party and is influential in the councils of its Oklahoma contingent. In the year 1886 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Chambers to Miss Flora G. GOSSERT, of Wabash, Indiana, and they became the parents of three sons, of whom the eldest, Robert W., met a tragic death in the year 1911, having been killed by lightning while in the State of Colorado and having been twenty-four years of age at the time; Thomas Gavin, Jr., familiarly known by his second personal name, is assistant United States district attorney in Oklahoma City; and Myron is prominently identified with the newspaper business in this city. Typed for OKGenWeb by: Donald E. Conley, November 6, 1998.