district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place term_end preceded term_start article_title state name restingplace
ohio 4 4th joseph vance 08 august 1864 zanesville , ohio allentown , pennsylvania march 3 , 1823 samuel herrick october 9 , 1821 david chambers -lrb- congressman -rrb-
 ohio david chambers greenwood cemetery
david chambers -lrb- congressman -rrb-

david chambers -lrb- november 25 , 1780 -- august 8 , 1864 -rrb- was a united states representative from ohio .
born in allentown , pennsylvania , chambers was tutored by his father .
he served as a confidential express rider for president george washington during the whisky insurrection in 1794 .
beginning in 1796 , he learned the art of printing while working in a newspaper office under benjamin franklin bache .
he moved to zanesville , ohio in 1810 , where he established a newspaper and was elected state printer .
during the war of 1812 , he volunteered as an aide-de-camp to major general lewis cass .
he served as recorder and mayor of zanesville , and as a member of the ohio house of representatives in 1814 , 1828 , from 1836 to 1838 , 1841 , and 1842 .
he served as clerk of the ohio state senate in 1817 and the court of common pleas of muskingum county from 1817 to 1821 .
chambers was subsequently elected as a democratic-republican to the 17th united states congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of representative-elect john c. wright and served from october 9 , 1821 to march 3 , 1823 .
he was not a candidate for renomination in the subsequent election .
chambers was affiliated with the whig party after its formation in 1833 .
he served as member of the state senate in 1843 and 1844 , and as president of the senate in 1844 .
in 1850 , he served as delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1850 .
he was active in agricultural pursuits until 1856 .
on august 8 , 1864 , chambers died in zanesville , ohio .
he was interred in greenwood cemetery .
