.Chester K. Gillespie (1897 - 1985) was a lawyer and politician who worked for civil rights in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born in to Warren and Lulu Trail Gillespie. He graduated from Ohio State University and then earned a law degree from Baldwin-Wallace College Law School in 1920. He served three terms in the Ohio General Assembly in 1933-34, 1939-40, and 1943-44. He was a Republican. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He and fellow attormey Clayborne George were denied office space in buildings in downtown Cleveland because they were African American.