Thomas Chambers Capture of H.B.M.Frigate Macedonian by U.S.Frigate United States
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Thomas Chambers
1808-1886
Thomas Chambers Galleries Related Paintings of Thomas Chambers :. | The Constitution and The Guerriere | Staten Island and the Narrows | Threatening Sky at the Bay of New York | Capture of H.B.M.Frigate Macedonian by U.S.Frigate United States | View of Cold Spring and Mount Taurus about 1850 | Related Artists: Joseph van Lerius painted Portrait of Henriette Mayer van den Bergh in 1857 Abraham Fischer 1850 ?C 1913,was the sole Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in South Africa. He was originally a lawyer in Cape Colony, joining the bar in 1875. He became vice-president of the Orange Free State's volksraad in 1893 and a member of the executive council in 1896. During the Boer War he went to Europe to solicit support for the Boers, returning in 1903 to practice law in the newly-formed Orange River Colony. Continuing to promote the Boer cause, he helped form the Oranje Unie party in May 1906 and became its chairman; the party won the majority of seats in the colony's first elections that were held in November 1907. On November 27, he was chosen as Prime Minister, and stayed in that position until it ceased to exist with the union of May 31, 1910. He then joined the cabinet of the Union of South Africa. Alexander Benois 1856-1933