Thomas Jefferson Chambers (March 22, 1840 – May 24, 1929) was a newspaper editor [1] and Texan politician who served in the Texas House from 1870 to 1873.
He began his career in newspapers as a teenager working at a paper in his native Virginia before moving to Liberty with his family and working at the original Liberty Gazette, founded by Henry Shea in 1855.
Jeff Chambers bought the Gazette from Shea in 1857 or 1858 and operated it himself while still in his teens.
[4] He published the Gazette until 1869, but for the period of the Civil War,[5] in which he served in the Confederate Army and was twice captured.
Though it no longer houses The Vindicator's offices, the building in which The Liberty Vindicator was originally published still stands at the corner of Travis Street and Trinity Avenue in Liberty, Texas.