Alfred Chandler (politician)

Alfred Elliott Chandler (1 July 1873 – 12 February 1935) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Malvern to market gardener William Chandler and Kate Timewell. He attended state school and became a horticulturist, running a nursery in Boronia. On 24 May 1897 he married Elizabeth Ann Intermann, with whom he had one daughter; he remarried on 27 August 1901 to Marie Intermann, with whom he had five children. He served on Ferntree Gully Shire Council from 1901 to 1935, with four terms as president (1908–09, 1918–19, 1923–24, 1934–35). In 1919 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Nationalist, representing South Eastern Province. He was Minister of Public Works and Mines from 1928 to 1929 and a minister without portfolio from 1932 to 1935. Chandler died in Boronia in 1935 and was succeeded by his son Gilbert.[1]