John Winthrop Chanler

John Winthrop Chanler ( born September 14, 1826 in New York City; † October 19, 1877 in Barrytown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Winthrop Chanler was taught by private tutors and then graduated in 1847 from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City. He then attended the University of Heidelberg in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Chanler studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice. He sat in the years 1858 and 1859 in the New York State Assembly. In 1860 he was nominated for the Senate from New York, but he withdrew his candidacy.

Chanler ran instead unsuccessfully in the same year for the 37th Congress. In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress, he was a democrat in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Elijah Ward on March 4, 1863. He was re-elected twice in a row and then retired after the March 3, 1859 from the Congress of. On 14 May 1866 he received the 39th Congress of the U.S. House of Representatives reprimanded because of his insult.

He died on October 19, 1877 at his estate " Rokeby " in Barrytown and then was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.

Family

John Winthrop Chanler married Margaret Astor Ward (1838-1875), granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875) and niece of Julia Ward Howe ( 1819-1910 ). The couple had ten children together, including Congressman William Astor Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler the Lieutenant Governor, the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler and Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich, who served during the Spanish- American War as a nurse at the American Red Cross. Chanler, most older son John Armstrong Chanler was married to the novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Margaret Chanler died shortly after the funeral of her grandfather in December 1875 on the consequences of pneumonia.