Robert Chamberlin
Robert Mather Chamberlin was an American politician in the state of South Dakota who was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1955 to 1964. Chamberlin was an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin 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 was also the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of South Dakota in the 1966 and 1968 elections. He died in 2013, aged 93.
