Walter M. Chandler
Walter Marion Chandler | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 19th district | |
In office March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923 | |
Preceded by | Joseph Rowan |
Succeeded by | Sol Bloom |
In office March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919 | |
Preceded by | John E. Andrus |
Succeeded by | Joseph Rowan |
Personal details | |
Born | Yazoo City, Mississippi | December 8, 1867
Died | March 16, 1935 New York City | (aged 67)
Political party | Republican Party Progressive Party |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Occupation | Attorney |
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Walter Marion Chandler (December 8, 1867 – March 16, 1935) was a Progressive and later a Republican U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born on December 8, 1867 near Yazoo City, Mississippi, Chandler attended public schools, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, and the University of Mississippi at Oxford.[1] He taught school for a time and then graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1897. He studied history and jurisprudence at the University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
He established his law practice in Dallas, Texas, and three years later moved to New York City, where he continued the practice of law and engaged in writing and lecturing.
In 1912, Chandler was elected to Congress to the first of two terms as a Progressive. In 1916, he was elected to a third term to Congress as a Republican. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the heavily Republican year of 1918.
In 1920, Chandler was elected to a fourth nonconsecutive term as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1923). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 and thereafter unsuccessfully contested the election of Sol Bloom to fill a congressional vacancy. He was again an unsuccessful candidate in 1924, even as U.S. President Calvin Coolidge won the electors of New York State.
He served as member of the faculty and lecturer at the American Expeditionary Force University at Beaune, France, during World War I.
After he left Congress early in 1923, he resumed the practice of law in New York City, where he died twelve years later, on March 16, 1935.[2] Chandler was interred in the West Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida.
References
- ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. XIV. James T. White & Company. 1910. pp. 515–516. Retrieved December 18, 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Chandler Dies in New York". Albuquerque Journal. March 17, 1935. p. 1. Retrieved December 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- United States Congress. "Walter M. Chandler (id: C000297)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
External links
- Works by Walter M. Chandler at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Walter M. Chandler at the Internet Archive
This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- 1867 births
- 1935 deaths
- People from Yazoo City, Mississippi
- Progressive Party (1912) members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
- 20th-century American politicians
- Politicians from New York City
- American lawyers
- University of Michigan alumni
- Heidelberg University alumni