Whittaker Chambers biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Whittaker Chambers

Author Name:

Whittaker Chambers

Born As:

Jay Vivian Chambers.

Other Names:

David Whittaker Chambers.

Born:

01 Apr 1901

Died:

09 Jul 1961




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Communist party-member-turned-defector and writer                          
                          
Mother Laha Whittaker
Father Jay Chambers
Wife Esther Shemitz, two children.                          
                          
Best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss, who was convicted of perjury.

Communist leadership had demanded that the family abort the first pregnancy, but Chambers refused.