Rod Chandler

Rodney Dennis " Rod" Chandler ( born July 13, 1942 in La Grande, Union County, Oregon) is an American politician. Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the State of Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Rodney Chandler is a great-great- great-nephew of Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879), who was from 1875 to 1877 and Secretary of the Interior from 1877 to 1879 Senator for the State of Michigan. He attended the common schools, including Eastern Oregon College in La Grande, which he completed in 1968. He then worked as a TV journalist. Between 1959 and 1964 he was a member of the National Guard of Oregon.

Politically, Chandler joined the Republican Party. Between 1974 and 1982 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Washington. In the years 1976, 1978 and 1980 he was a delegate to the Republican party conventions in Washington State. In the congressional elections of 1982, he was eighth in the newly created constituency of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new post on January 3, 1983. After four elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1993. In 1991 there the 27th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1992, Chandler opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he joined unsuccessfully against Patty Murray in the Senate election. In the years 2006 and 2007, Chandler taught at the Eaglercrest High School in Centennial (Colorado) that political science. He now lives in Aurora ( Colorado).