Willard H. Chandler

Willard Harris Chandler (November 18, 1830 – March 24, 1901) was an educator and farmer from Dane County, Wisconsin who served as a Republican[1][2][3] member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate.

Biography

Chandler was born on November 18, 1830 in Brattleboro, Vermont.[1][4][5] He married Lucinda Wellman (1830–1893) in 1854 and they moved to Wisconsin that same year.[1] They initially lived in Darien, Wisconsin and then soon moved to Windsor, Wisconsin before relocating to a farm in Burke, Wisconsin near Sun Prairie in 1869.[1] After the death of his first wife, he married Harriet Adelaide Salisbury (1845–1898) in 1895.[4] Chandler died at his farm on March 24, 1901.[1][6]

Career

Chandler held a variety of local offices, including town and county school superintendent, and county supervisor.[1] He was a member of the Assembly from 1861 to 1862 and again in 1870. He was elected to the Senate in 1863, where he eventually became president pro tem.[4] He was the Republican nominee for state superintendent of education in 1892, coming in second with 169,739 votes to 176,666 for the incumbent, Democrat Oliver Elwin Wells; 13,258 for Prohibitionist L. Wesley Underwood; and 9,784 for Populist Charles Hatch.[7][2]

References
  1. "W. H. Chandler Passes Away". Wisconsin State Journal. Madison, WI. March 25, 1901. p. 1. Retrieved December 8, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "W. H. Chandler Ill". Wisconsin State Journal. Madison, WI. March 23, 1901. p. 1. Retrieved December 7, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Chandler, Willard H." Political Graveyard. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  4. "W. H. Chandler Dies". The Daily Tribune. Wisconsin Rapids, WI. March 30, 1901. p. 6. Retrieved December 9, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letter". Google. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  6. Assembly, Wisconsin. Legislature. (1901). Journal of the Assembly of Wisconsin: Annual Session. Retrieved 2015-05-22.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  7. Cunningham, Thomas J., ed. The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin 1893 Madison: Thomas J. Cunningham, Secretary of State; p. 306
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