Clarence C. Gilhams

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| name = Clarence C. Gilhams

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| state = Indiana

| district = 12th

| term_start = November 6, 1906

| term_end = March 3, 1909

| predecessor = Newton W. Gilbert

| successor = Cyrus Cline

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| birth_place = Brighton, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1912|06|05|1860|04|11}}

| death_place = Lagrange, Indiana, U.S.

| nationality = American

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| party = Republican

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| alma_mater = Indiana State University

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| restingplace = Greenwood Cemetery, Lagrange, Indiana

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Clarence Chauncey Gilhams (April 11, 1860 – June 5, 1912) was an American educator and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1906 to 1909.

Biography

Born in Brighton, Indiana, Gilhams attended the common local schools and Indiana State University at Terre Haute, Indiana and became a school teacher. He was employed as a salesman. An auditor of Lagrange County in 1894–1902, he later engaged in the life insurance business.

=Congress =

Gilhams was elected as a Republican, in 1906, to the Fifty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Newton W. Gilbert; he was reelected to the Sixtieth Congress and served from November 6, 1906, to March 3, 1909.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.