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Daniel H. Chamberlain was born in West Brookfield, Massachusetts , the ninth of ten children born to Eli Chamberlain and Achsah Forbes. In 1862 , he graduated with honors from Yale University , where he was a member of the Skull And Bones Society . He then attended Harvard Law School , leaving in 1863 to serve as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army with the Fifth Massachusetts Cavalry , a Regiment of black troops. In 1866 , Chamberlain moved to South Carolina to tend to the affairs of a deceased classmate. He entered politics in 1868 as a delegate to the state constitutional convention from the Berkeley District. He served as Attorney General of South Carolina from 1868 – 1872 in Governor Robert K. Scott ’s administration. After he failed to win the Republican nomination for governor in 1872 , Chamberlain practiced law in Charleston . In 1873 , he was elected to the board of trustees of the University Of South Carolina as the first black students and faculty joined the institution. He was elected Republican governor on November 3 , 1874 when he defeated John T. Green . Chamberlain received 80,403 votes (53.9%) to Green's 68,818 votes (46.1%). Chamberlain was noted for his support of Civil Rights , and opposition to excessive spending and Patronage . After a Bitterly Fought 1876 Campaign , his second term hinged on disputed votes from Laurens and Edgefield counties, where the counts greatly exceeded the population, and overwhelmingly favored his opponent, Ex-Confederate Wade Hampton III . Chamberlain left South Carolina in April of 1877 when President Rutherford B. Hayes Withdrew Federal Troops that had occupied the state since the Civil War . Chamberlain eventually became disillusioned with Reconstruction . Chamberlain moved to New York City and became a successful Wall Street attorney. He was a professor of Constitutional Law at Cornell University from 1883 until 1897 . Chamberlain authored the 1902 book ''Charles Sumner and the Treaty of Washington,'' as well as numerous articles. Upon his retirement, he traveled extensively in Europe . He moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, where he died of cancer on April 13 , 1907 . Chamberlain was the last Republican to fill a high office in South Carolina until the late 1960s . EXTERNAL LINKS
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