William E. Chandler
| William Eaton Chandler | |
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Senator William E. Chandler
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| 30th United States Secretary of the Navy | |
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In office April 16, 1882 – March 4, 1885 |
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| President | Chester A. Arthur |
| Preceded by | William H. Hunt |
| Succeeded by | William C. Whitney |
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United States Senator from New Hampshire |
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In office June 14, 1887 – March 3, 1889 June 18, 1889 – March 3, 1901 |
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| Preceded by |
Person C. Cheney Gilman Marston |
| Succeeded by |
Gilman Marston Henry E. Burnham |
| Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | |
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In office 1862–1864 |
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| Personal details | |
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December 28, 1835 Concord, New Hampshire |
| Died | November 30, 1917 (aged 81) Concord, New Hampshire |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Gilmore Lucy Lambert Hale |
| Children | John Parker Hale Chandler |
| Alma mater | Harvard Law School |
| Occupation | lawyer |
| Religion | Universalist Unitarian Church |
William Eaton Chandler (December 28, 1835 – November 30, 1917) was a lawyer who served as United States Secretary of the Navy and as a U.S. Senator from New Hampshire.
William E. Chandler was born in Concord, New Hampshire to Nathan S. Chandler and Mary Ann (Tucker) Chandler. William's elder brother, John Chandler, was a successful East India merchant and his younger brother George Chandler, an attorney who served as a major during the Civil War.
William Chandler attended the common schools, Thetford Academy and Pembroke Academy before attending Harvard Law School, where he began a romantic correspondence with Lucy Lambert Hale, daughter of Senator John Parker Hale. He graduated in 1854, was admitted to the bar in 1855, and commenced practice in Concord.
In 1859 Chandler married Ann Gilmore, the daughter of Governor Joseph A. Gilmore. In 1874, after his first wife's death, Chandler resumed his romance with Lucy Hale, who had been secretly betrothed in 1865 to John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin. Chandler and Hale were married in 1874, and in March 1875, their only son, John Parker Hall Chandler, was born.
In 1859, Chandler was appointed reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. He then served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864 and was the Speaker during the last two years.
In 1865, Chandler was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln solicitor and judge advocate general of the Navy Department. Subsequently, he was appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, until he resigned in 1867.
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