Robert N. Chamberlain Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Hon.
Robert Nelson Chamberlain
Office:2nd Chief Justice of the
New Hampshire Superior Court
Term Start:January 23, 1917
Term End:September 20, 1917
Succeeded:John Kivel
Term Start2:1904
Term End2:1917
Succeeded2:John Eliot Allen
Term Start3:1893
Term End3:1895
Succeeded3:Stephen S. Jewett
Birth Date:July 24, 1856
Death Date:September 19, 1917
Party:Republican Party

Robert Nelson Chamberlain (July 24, 1856 – September 20, 1917) (sometimes spelled Chamberlin[1]) was an American lawyer and Republican politician who served as Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and as an Associate Justice and later as the second Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court.

Life

Chamberlin was born on July 24, 1856, in Bangor, New York, but moved to Berlin, New Hampshire, when he was a child. As an adult, Chamberlain became interested in town and state affairs and became a lawyer, the first lawyer in said town.

Chamberlin became involved with politics, and from 1893 to 1895, he served as the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In 1904, he was appointed as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court. Chamberlain was appointed as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court in 1917 to replace Robert G. Pike who had died.

Chamberlain died in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 19, 1917.

Notes

  1. Manual for the General Court by New Hampshire. Dept. of State. 1931. no. 22. pp. 117, 140.