Thomas Alberter Chandler

Thomas Alberter Chandler ( born July 26, 1871 Eucha, Delaware County, Oklahoma, † June 22, 1953 in Vinita, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1919, and from 1921 to 1923, he represented the first electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Chandler attended the public schools of his home and then to 1888 the Worcester Academy in Vinita. Later he also studied at Drury College in Springfield ( Missouri). After that, he was a tax collector in 1891 in the town of Cherokee. From 1895 to 1898 he was an administrative employee of this city. Between 1900 and 1907 he was employed in the administration at the court in the northern district of the Indian territory. After graduating from law school himself, he was able to work from 1907 in Vinita as a lawyer.

Chandler was a member of the Republican Party. In 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In the years 1909 and 1910 he was a member of the Public Affairs Committee of the State of Oklahoma. In addition to his career as a lawyer to Chandler also engaged in agriculture, in the oil business and the real estate market.

1916 Chandler was elected in the first district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of James S. Davenport on March 4, 1917. Since he was not re-elected in 1918, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1919. But with the elections of 1920 he was able to regain his seat in the House of Representatives from the Democrats Everette B. Howard. He remained on 4 March 1921 to 3 March 1923, another term in Congress. In the elections of 1922 he defeated Howard, who for the second time became his successor.

After the end of his time in Congress to Chandler devoted his private shops again and had continued to work as a lawyer. He died in 1953 in Vinita.