Joseph Ripley Chandler

Joseph Ripley Chandler ( born August 22, 1792 in Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † July 10, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Chandler attended the common schools and worked in Boston in the trade. In 1815 he moved to Philadelphia, where he called a girls' school to life. Between 1822 and 1847 he published the newspaper United States Gazette. Between 1832 and 1848 Chandler sat in the City Council of Philadelphia. Politically, he was a member of the mid-1830s, founded the Whig Party. In 1837 he took part in a constitutional convention in Pennsylvania as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1848, Chandler was in the second electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Reed Ingersoll on March 4, 1849. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War.

Between 1858 and 1860 Joseph Chandler was American ambassador in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, based in Naples. After that, he was a board member at Girard College. Joseph Chandler was also interested in the improvement of prisons; in 1872 he took part in an international conference in London prison. He died on July 10, 1880 in Philadelphia.