The President today announced that he will nominate Charles J. Chamberlain, of Des Plaines, III., for reappointment as a member of the Railroad Retirement Board.
Chamberlain has been the labor member of this Board since 1977. The Board administers retirement-survivor and unemployment-sickness benefit programs provided by Federal laws for the Nation's railroad workers and their families.
Chamberlain was born August 7, 1921. From 1938 to 1956, he worked for the Chicago and North Western Railroad as a signalman and signal maintainer. From 1941 to 1977, he held various posts in the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, beginning as recording secretary for Local 108 and finally serving as president of the union.
Chamberlain also served as chairman of the Railway Labor Executives' Association from 1970 to 1977. He was an alderman in De Kalb, Ill., from 1954 to 1958.
Jimmy Carter, Railroad Retirement Board Nomination of Charles 1. Chamberlain To Be a Member. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/250137