Thomas Chandler (New Hampshire politician)

Thomas Chandler ( born August 10, 1772 in Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † January 28, 1866 ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Chandler was the younger brother of John Chandler (1762-1841), who represented from 1805 to 1809 the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1819 to 1829 and U.S. senator was for the State of Maine. His nephew Zachariah Chandler sat for Michigan in the Senate and served as Secretary of the Interior.

Chandler attended the public schools of his home. In 1808 he was justice of the peace. He also served in the militia of New Hampshire. In 1815 he held the rank of captain. 1817 and 1827 he was selected in each case in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. As a supporter of Andrew Jackson, he was a member of the Democratic Party, founded by this. In the congressional elections of 1828, which were held all across the state, Chandler was the second parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1829, the successor of Titus Brown. After a re-election in 1830 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 two legislative sessions.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, Thomas Chandler withdrew from politics. In the following years he worked as an innkeeper and in agriculture. He died on 28 January 1866 in his native Bedford.

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