Walter M. Chandler

Walter M. Chandler (* December 8, 1867 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, † March 16, 1935 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1919, and 1921-1923 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter M. Chandler was born about two years after the end of the civil war in Yazoo County. He attended public schools, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the University of Mississippi in Oxford. He taught at a school. In 1897 he graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He studied history and law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg. His admission to the bar he received in 1897 and then began to practice in Dallas (Texas ). In 1900 he moved to New York City, where he continued his activities as a lawyer. In addition, he devoted himself to writing and lecturing.

Politically, he was a member of the Progressive Party. In the congressional elections of 1912 for the 63rd Congress Chandler was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Emory Andrus on March 4, 1913. He was re-elected twice in a row. During this time, the Progressive Party disbanded. In 1917, he joined the Republican Party. Upon his re-election bid in 1918, he suffered a defeat against the Democrats Joseph Rowan and retired after March 3, 1919 from the Congress of. In the congressional elections of 1920 for the 67th Congress, he was re-elected in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he began his service on 4 March 1921. In 1922 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1923 the Congress of. When his successor Samuel Marx died, Democrat Sol Bloom was elected in a by-election in the 68th Congress, which Chandler challenged unsuccessfully. In 1924, Chandler ran again unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During the First World War, he was a faculty member and lecturer at the American Expeditionary Force University in Beaune (France). After his time Congress he resumed his work as a lawyer in New York City, where he died on 16 March 1935. He was buried at the West Evergreen Cemetery in Jacksonville (Florida ).