Joseph R. Chandler
American politician
Joseph Ripley Chandler (August 22, 1792 – July 10, 1880) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Early life and journalism
Joseph R. Chandler was born in Kingston, Massachusetts. He was engaged in commercial work in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1815. He founded a young ladies' seminary and worked as editor of the United States Gazette from 1822 to 1847. For a short time, he was an editorial assistant at Graham's Magazine in 1848.
Politics
Chandler was a member of the Philadelphia City Council from 1832 to 1848, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses. He was a leading opponent of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
In 1854, Chandler, who had recently converted to Catholicism, failed to receive a single vote for renomination at the 2nd District Whig convention, and Job Roberts Tyson was nominated instead. Chandler was nominated by the Independent Whigs of the Second Congressional District, who were opposed to the Know Nothing influence on the Whig Party.
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