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William Eaton Chandler was born on December 28, 1835 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann (Tucker) Chandler.
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William Eaton Chandler was born on December 28, 1835 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. He was the son of Nathan S. and Mary Ann (Tucker) Chandler.
His parents gave him an education at the local schools and academies, and sent him to the Harvard Law School, where he received his degree in 1854.
After a few years as court reporter, he turned politician and journalist; and with the Concord Monitor and Statesman (which he controlled for many years) for an ally, he justified the nickname of the "stormy petrel" of New Hampshire politics. He had great talents as a manager and controversialist, which brought him to power in the rough and tumble of the Civil War. Elected to the legislature in 1863, he was reelected in the two succeeding years, in both of which he was also speaker of the New Hampshire Assembly. It was no disadvantage that his father-in-law, Joseph A. Gilmore, was at the same time, 1863-65, governor of the state. Chandler established his character as a war Republican, advocating a confiscation of the property of rebels, and the right of soldiers in the field to vote. He gave vigorous support to the Lincoln administration, and was appointed, first, to prosecute frauds in the Philadelphia navy-yard, and then, at the beginning of Lincoln's second administration, to be solicitor and judge-advocate general of the navy department. President Johnson transferred him to the treasury, where he was assistant secretary, 1865-67; after which he returned to the practise of law and politics in his native state. As national committeeman from New Hampshire he assisted in directing party strategy in the four presidential campaigns, 1868, 1872, 1876, and 1880. In the first two of these he was secretary of the Republican National Committee. Immediately after the election of 1876, although he had ceased to be secretary, he appeared at the headquarters of the national committee in New York City, and took a large share in the maneuvers that secured the outcome of the election. He refused to concede the election of Tilden, inspired the fights before the returning boards of Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, and was counsel for the Florida electors before the electoral commission. The installation of Hayes as president was commonly regarded as a triumph of his tactics. He was not, however, appointed to important office in the government, and was soon disgusted with the friendliness shown by Hayes to the South, and with the somewhat non-partisan course of the administration. The Hayes circular directing office-holders to refrain from the official management of political campaigns seemed to him hypocrisy. After the refusal of the Senate to confirm the Hayes appointees to the New York Custom-House, Chandler came out with a public manifesto addressed to the Republicans of New Hampshire. In this he charged that Hayes was guilty of a corrupt bargain with the Democrats, whereby he received the presidency in return for a pledge to relax Northern control over the South. In 1880 Chandler led the Blaine faction of the national Republican committee against Cameron, who was manager for Gen. Grant. When Garfield eventually secured the nomination from the Republican convention, Chandler gave him his support, and was rewarded in the spring of 1881 by a nomination to be solicitor-general, which, however, the Senate refused to confirm. In the next winter he was appointed secretary of the navy by President Arthur after the retirement of William H. Hunt. The appointment was interpreted as a civil gesture toward the friends of James G. Blaine; and it gave to Chandler a chance to preside over the navy in a momentous period of its history. He reminded Congress in his first annual report, as Arthur had done in the annual message of the preceding year, that the navy of the United States, as a fighting force, was extinct. Its leading warship was the Tennessee, a wooden ship of 4, 840 tons displacement. Only the United States, among major nations, had refrained from profiting by the new methods of naval architecture. In Chandler's first year of office, on August 5, 1882, Congress authorized the preparation of plans for two steel cruisers; and on March 3, 1883, it made appropriations for constructing these, and for adding two more steel vessels to the new navy. Under Chandler's direction the plans were drawn and the keels were laid for the Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, and a despatch boat, the Dolphin. The contracts were let to John Roach who had been building steel ships on the Delaware for several years. It was determined to proceed no more rapidly than American building resources would justify, but to manufacture the new ships and their armament in the United States rather than attempt to buy them abroad. Several years elapsed before the American shipyards and gun foundries were ready for contracts for armored cruisers or battleships. Naval architecture was not beyond the point at which it was possible to argue that the ships should possess complete sailing equipment as well as steam; and at which it was possible to mount the boilers over brick furnaces (as was done in the Chicago). As might have been expected, none of these four vessels was a triumph. The Dolphin was a scandal. Chandler was publicly charged with favoritism; but he had established the new program of steel construction before he handed over his office to William C. Whitney in 1885. After 1885, Chandler continued active with his newspaper, fought vigorously against the great railroad combinations of his state, and secured in 1887 election to the United States Senate for the last two years of the term of Austin F. Pike. In 1889 he was elected for a full term, after a bitter fight with Jacob H. Gallinger in the New Hampshire legislature. He was again reelected in 1895, but was defeated in 1901 by Judge Henry E. Burnham, whereupon President McKinley made him chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. Chandler's style of speech and writing may be judged from his New Hampshire: A Slave State (1891), popularly known as the "Book of Bargains. "
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He was slight, lithe, bearded, and agreeable.
He was married twice: in 1859 to Ann Caroline Gilmore (d. 1871), and in 1874 to Lucy Lambert Hale, daughter of a former senator, John P. Hale.