Joseph Ripley Chandler (August 22, 1792 – July 10, 1880) was a Whig Party (United States), Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

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. He was a member of the Philadelphia City Council from 1832 to 1848, and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837. For a short time, he was an editorial assistant at ''Graham's Magazine'' in 1848. Chandler was elected as a Whig to the 31st United States Congress, Thirty-first, 32nd United States Congress, Thirty-second, and 33rd United States Congress, Thirty-third Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in United States House election, 1854, 1854. He was appointed by President James Buchanan as United States Ambassador, Minister to the Two Sicilies and served from June 15, 1858, to November 15, 1860."Joseph Ripley Chandler", Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute
/ref> He served as president of the board of directors of Girard College. He became interested in prison reform and was a delegate to the International Prison Congress held at London in 1872. He died in 1880 in Philadelphia, where he was interred in New Cathedral Cemetery.

References

Bibliography

*Gerrity, Frank. "The Disruption of the Philadelphia Whigocracy: Joseph R. Chandler, Anti-Catholicism, and the Congressional Election of 1854." ''Pennsylvania Magazine'', 111 (April 1987): 161–94.

Sources

The Political Graveyard

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