Henry Cousins Chambers (July 26, 1823 – May 1, 1871) was a Confederate politician during the American Civil War.

He was born in Limestone County, Alabama, the son of Henry H. Chambers. He later moved to Mississippi and served in the state legislature in 1859. He represented Mississippi in the First Confederate Congress and the Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Henry Cousins Chambers

He killed his opponent for Confederate Congress, William Augustus Lake, in a duel in 1861.

Henry Cousins Chambers

See also

List of Confederate duels

References

Political Graveyard

1823 births

1871 deaths

People from Limestone County, Alabama

Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Mississippi

19th-century American politicians

Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives

Mississippi lawyers

American duellists

19th-century American lawyers

Henry Cousins Chambers