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Oil on canvas, Lloyd Embry, 1961, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives |
CHIPERFIELD, Robert Bruce, (son of Burnett Mitchell Chiperfield),
a Representative from Illinois; born in Canton, Fulton County, Ill.,
November 20, 1899; educated in the public schools of Canton, Ill., Washington,
D.C., and at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; served as a private during
the First World War; attended Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.; was graduated from
Harvard College in 1922 and from the law department of Boston University in
1925; was admitted to the bar in 1925 and commenced practice in Canton, Ill.;
city attorney of Canton, Ill.; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and
to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1939-January 3, 1963);
chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Eighty-third Congress); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resided in
Canton, Ill., until his death there, April 9, 1971; interment in Greenwood
Cemetery.
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