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Joseph Ripley Chandler

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President
  
James Buchanan

Name
  
Joseph Chandler

Preceded by
  
Robert Dale Owen

Role
  
U.S. representative


Preceded by
  
Joseph R. Ingersoll

Party
  
Whig Party

Political party
  
Whig

Succeeded by
  
Job Roberts Tyson

Joseph Ripley Chandler

Born
  
August 22, 1792 Kingston, Massachusetts (
1792-08-22
)

Died
  
July 10, 1880, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Books
  
Public Schools of Washington. Address ... at the Public School celebration, August, 1850. (Historical Sketch of the Public Schools of Washington.).

Similar People
  
Edgar Allan Poe, Bayard Taylor, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Edwin Percy Whipple

Joseph Ripley Chandler (August 22, 1792 – July 10, 1880) was a 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 Thirty-first, Thirty-second, and Thirty-third Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854. He was appointed by President James Buchanan as Minister to the Two Sicilies and served from June 15, 1858, to November 15, 1860. 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

Joseph Ripley Chandler Wikipedia