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Sen. Ernie Chambers' life & times: A timeline

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Sen. Ernie Chambers' life & times: A timeline

• JoANNE YOUNG Lincoln Journal Star
• Dec 20, 2020
• Dec 20, 2020 Updated Jul 3, 2026
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Ernie Chambers shows off the "Republican" on his desk, an inflatable bird with an elephant trunk. This 1989 photo was taken shortly after Chambers filed as a Republican instead of an Independent. 

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Ernie Chambers tapes a Hitler quote to his chest in this 1989 photo to protest a special session called by then Gov. Kay Orr to address the state's tax problems. 

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Wearing his gridiron garb, Sen. Ernie Chambers made one last pitch to designate University football players as state employees in May, 1983. 

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Senators Terry Carpenter and Ernie Chambers talk in this 1978 photo.

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State Senators John De Camp and Ernie Chambers are interviewed in 1971. 

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Ernie Chambers speaks on the unmarked human burial sites and skeletal remains protection act in 1989. 

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JoANNE YOUNG Lincoln Journal Star

1910-1920 -- Malcolm D. Chambers, Ernie's father, moves to Omaha with his parents, Samuel and Emma, and brothers and sister from Lowndes County, Mississippi. Malcolm is listed as a 12-year-old newsboy in the 1920 Omaha census.

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From left to right, Ernie Chambers, Bill Armstrong and Dan Goodwin cut hair at an Omaha barber shop in 1968. 

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Senator's Ernie-Grams reflect trail of controversies that followed him

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Ernie Chambers on the legislative floor in a 1971 photo. 

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Ernie Chambers speaks with Virgil Taylor, center, in this February 1978 photo. 

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Senators Ernie Chambers and Terry Carpenter speak in this 1978 photo. 

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Sponsoring a bill to outlaw corporal punishment in schools, Sen. Ernie Chambers shows the paddles which he says are used on junior high students in Omaha in this 1980 photo. 

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Sen. Ernie Chambers holds a child on the legislative floor in this April 1982 photo. 

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Senators Kathy Campbell and Ernie Chambers embrace after the legislature voted Wednesday, May 27, 2015 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law ending the death penalty in Nebraska.

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Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha speaks on the floor of the Legislature in late March 2019. On Thursday, senators debated a bill introduced by Chambers that would repeal the death penalty.

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Photos: Sen. Ernie Chambers through the years

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Sen. Ernie Chambers urges senators to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law repealing the death penalty in Nebraska during debate on the motion Wednesday, May 27, 2015.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Former State Senator Ernie Chambers talks outside the Robert V. Denney Federal Building during a rally calling on Congress to slash America's bloated military budget on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 2011.

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Former State Senator Ernie Chambers talks outside the Robert V. Denney Federal Building during a rally calling on Congress to slash America's bloated military budget on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 2011.

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Former State Senator Ernie Chambers talks outside the Robert V. Denney Federal Building during a rally calling on Congress to slash America's bloated military budget on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 2011

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Former State Senator Ernie Chambers talks with Journal Star reporter Don Walton outside the Robert V. Denney Federal Building prior to the start of a rally calling on Congress to slash America's bloated military budget on Tuesday afternoon, April 12, 2011.

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star file photo

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Nebraska senator Ernie Chambers (right) enjoys a laugh with fellow senator Brad Ashford of Omaha during Day 90 of the Nebraska legislature session on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at the Nebraska Capitol Building.

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Senators Patty Pansing Brooks and Ernie Chambers embrace after the legislature voted Wednesday, May 27, 2015, to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law ending the death penalty in Nebraska.

Journal Star file photo

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Senators Kathy Campbell and Ernie Chambers embrace after the legislature voted Wednesday, May 27, 2015 to override Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a law ending the death penalty in Nebraska.

Journal Star file photo

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Nebraska Sen. Amanda McGill of Lincoln (left) enjoys a laugh with fellow Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha during Day 90 of the Legislature on June 5, 2013.

FRANCIS GARDLER, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Senator Ernie Chambers (R) and other senators are sworn in as the 103rd Legislature got under way on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013.

GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Meg Wightman, 8, and her sister, Emalie Wightman, 11, listen after being introduced to Senator Ernie Chambers on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, on the floor of the legislature. The Wightman sisters are granddaughters of Senator John Wightman.

GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Senator Ernie Chambers calls from Criminal Justice reform in front of the Nebraska State Capital on Friday June 19, 2020, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

State Sen. Charlie Janssen (right) and his daughter Scarlett, 18 months, greet fellow senator Ernie Chambers before the start of the final session of the 103rd Nebraska Unicameral Legislature on Thursday, April 17, 2014, at the Capitol.

KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

State Sen. Ernie Chambers (right) makes a point during a hearing as fellow committee member State Sen. Paul Schumacher listens on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, at the State Capitol.

KRISTIN STREFF, Journal Star

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

State Sen. Ernie Chambers listens during the opening day of the 105th legislative session in 2017.

Journal Star file photo

Photos: Ernie Chambers through the Years

Sen. Ernie Chambers speaks during debate, July 27, 2020, at Nebraska State Capitol.

JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photos

Ernie Chambers, Megan Hunt

Sen. Megan Hunt (left) speaks with Sen. Ernie Chambers during floor debate on Aug. 13 at the state Capitol.

JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photo

Ernie Chambers

About 100 people show their support for State Sen. Ernie Chambers on Aug. 13, 2020, the last day of his last legislative session, outside the Nebraska State Capitol.

ANNA REED, Omaha WORLD-HERALD file photo

Ernie Chambers

State Sen. Ernie Chambers in his Capitol office, piled high with filing boxes.

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Ernie Chambers

Sen. Ernie Chambers returned to the Legislature in 2013 after sitting out four years due to term limits.

Lincoln Journal Star file photo

103rd Legislature starts

Sisters Meg (left) and Emalie Wightman, granddaughters of then-Sen. John Wightman, talk to Sen. Ernie Chambers after being introduced in 2013.

GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star file photo

103rd Legislature starts

Sergeant at Arms corps member Lois VanDeventer (left) talks with Sen. Ernie Chambers in a hallway of the Capitol on Jan. 9, 2013.

GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star file photo

Surprise Ernie Chambers Rally, 8.13

State Sen. Ernie Chambers (center) is led back to the Legislature by fellow Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks (right) after a surprise rally by supporters on Aug. 13, 2020, on the north steps of the Capitol. 

FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR file photo

Surprise Ernie Chambers Rally, 8.13

Ernie Chambers, Nebraska's longest-serving state senator, addresses supporters on the stairs of the Capitol on Aug. 13, 2020, when more than 100 people gathered outside to celebrate his tenure.

FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR file photo

Surprise Ernie Chambers Rally, 8.13

Supporters of state Sen. Ernie Chambers surprised the legislator with a celebration of his tenure on Aug. 13, 2020, on the north steps of the state Capitol. 

FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR file photo

BLM Protest

Sen. Ernie Chambers joins Stand In for Lincoln protesters outside the state Capitol on May 29, 2020. 

KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star file photo

Chambers Birthday Card

Sen. Ernie Chambers with a birthday card from Gov. Pete Ricketts and “return to sender” message in July 2020. 

JoANNE YOUNG, Journal Star file photo

Legislature First Day

Sen. Ernie Chambers speaks on the first day of the legislative session on Jan. 8, 2020, at the Capitol.

JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star file photo

XGR - Schimek and Chambers

Legislative aide Elaine Menzel (from left) consults with state Sens. DiAnna Schimek, Ernie Chambers and Bernice Labedz during the 1991 legislative session. Schimek is responsible for the state's unique electoral vote system law and Chambers has been instrumental in blocking attempts to change Nebraska back to a winner-take-all state.

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Chambers 45

Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers answers a reporter's questions Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in his Capitol office, piled high with filing boxes. 

ERIC GREGORY, Journal Star

Chambers and his 'Republican'

Ernie Chambers shows off the "Republican" on his desk, an inflatable bird with an elephant trunk. This 1989 photo was taken shortly after Chambers filed as a Republican instead of an Independent. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers quotes Hitler

Ernie Chambers tapes a Hitler quote to his chest in this 1989 photo to protest a special session called by then Gov. Kay Orr to address the state's tax problems. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers at death penalty debate

Ernie Chambers listens to the debate in opposition to LB 675, his priority bill intended to eliminate the death penalty. in 1988.

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers reloads

Ernie Chambers plays with a toy gun in this 1986 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers campaign

Ernie Chambers holds up a bumper sticker for his campaign in 1988, when he was actively campaigning for both the Senate and a legislative seat. 

Journal Star Archives

Chambers on burial sites

Ernie Chambers speaks on the unmarked human burial sites and skeletal remains protection act in 1989. 

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Chambers on University

Ernie Chambers makes some calls in his office while wearing a University of Nebraska at Kearney shirt. The legislature was, at the time of this May 1989 photo, considering making KSC part of the university system in Nebraska. 

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Chambers addresses the press

Sen. Ernie chambers addresses the press at the Capitol in this 1988 file photo.

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Chambers on speed limits

Ernie Chambers spells out his speed limit bill in this March, 1996 archival photo. 

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Chambers in 1974

Ernie Chambers wears an "Elect Chambers" button in this 1974 photo.

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Chambers aims

Ernie Chambers aims down the barrel of a toy gun in this 1986 photo. 

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Chambers in 1978

Sen. Ernie Chambers, who will leave the Legislature in January, speaks in 1978.

Journal Star File Photo

Ernie Chambers

Ernie Chambers is arrested in 1969 during racial protests on Omaha's near north side. 

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Chambers at a hearing

Ernie Chambers speaks at at hearing in this March 1984 photo. 

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Chambers at Grenada protest

Ernie Chambers talks to Bruce Erlich at a protest of American action in Grenada in this October 1983 file photo. 

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Chambers on gambling

Ernie Chambers comments on an ad in the Omaha World Herald during debate over a bill that would legalize sport wagering in the state in this 1988 file photo. 

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Chambers enters the legislature

Ernie Chambers' headshot in Oct. 1970 before he enters the legislature. 

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Chambers goes fourth and long

Wearing his gridiron garb, Sen. Ernie Chambers made one last pitch to designate University football players as state employees in May, 1983. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers in 1974

Ernie Chambers in 1974.

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Chambers' death penalty shirt

Sen. Ernie Chambers waits for the debate on his bill to eliminate the death penalty in this 1978 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers and Carpenter

Senators Terry Carpenter and Ernie Chambers talk in this 1978 photo.

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers and Taylor

Ernie Chambers speaks with Virgil Taylor, center, in this February 1978 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers on lawyers

Ernie Chambers wears a shirt protesting what he called the death of Nebraskans' constitutional right of appeal to the state's highest courts and measure LR8 in February, 1990. 

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Chambers at anti-apartheid rally

Ernie Chambers tells an anti-apartheid rally at UNL that the black majority should kill South African whites in this Oct. 1985 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers' desk

A sign on Ernie Chambers' desk in 1996 references "The Terminator."

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers with Nigerians

Ernie Chambers speaks with a group of Nigerians in this 1981 photo.

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers in 1982

Sen. Ernie Chambers holds a child on the legislative floor in this April 1982 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers at Boyd Elementary

Tiffany Wright, a fourth grader at Boyd Elemntary School, shows Sen. Ernie Chambers how to witch for water in this 1988 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers cutting hair

From left to right, Ernie Chambers, Bill Armstrong and Dan Goodwin cut hair at an Omaha barber shop in 1968. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers and the electric chair

In Feb. 1976, Mel Beckman of the Holy Family Church in Omaha, lent Ernie Chambers moral support in his effort to repeal the death penalty by presenting him a replica of the state's electric chair, inscribed with the words, "Oh Life, how precious you are!"

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers in 1971

Ernie Chambers on the legislative floor in a 1971 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Ernie Chambers apartheid

State Sen. Ernie Chambers speaks to the crowd during an anti-apartheid rally at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Oct. 12, 1985.

Journal Star file photo

Chambers and De Camp

State Senators John De Camp and Ernie Chambers are interviewed in 1971. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers on corporal punishment

Sponsoring a bill to outlaw corporal punishment in schools, Sen. Ernie Chambers shows the paddles which he says are used on junior high students in Omaha in this 1980 photo. 

Journal Star File Photo

Chambers and Carpenter

Senators Ernie Chambers and Terry Carpenter speak in this 1978 photo. 

Journal Star file photo

Chambers' uniform

Ernie Chambers models his new shirt for the Journal in this 1985 photo. He'd been recently criticized for his dress in the legislature. 

Journal Star File Photo

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