Joseph Ripley Chandler
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Joseph Ripley Chandler (August 22, 1792–July 10, 1880) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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.
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 Philadelphia in 1880. Interment in New Cathedral Cemetery.
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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.
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| Preceded by Joseph R. Ingersoll |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district 1849 - 1855 |
Succeeded by Job R. Tyson |
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| Preceded by Robert Dale Owen |
United States Ambassador (as Minister Resident) to the Two Sicilies 1858–1860 |
Succeeded by Embassy closed |
