Ernie Chambers

Ernie Chambers was born on July 10, 1937, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a barber, and he has been a member of Nebraska's unicameral legislature from 1971 to the present (2019), except for the period between 2009 and 2013, when a term-limits law prevented him from running for reelection. He represents a district in north Omaha. He holds a bachelor's degree and a law degree from Creighton University. He appears in A Time for Burning (1967), commenting on Rev. Bill Youngdahl's attempts to introduce an exchange between Lutherans attending Youngdahl's all-white church and members of a nearby Lutheran congregation of African Americans.