John Winthrop Chanler

John Winthrop Chanler

John Winthrop Chanler (born September 14, 1826 in New York City , † October 19, 1877 in Barrytown , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1863 and 1869 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Winthrop Chanler was tutored and graduated from Columbia College (now Columbia University ) in New York City in 1847 . He then attended the University of Heidelberg in the Grand Duchy of Baden . Chanler studied law , got his lawyer license, and then started practicing. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1858 and 1859 . In 1860 he was nominated for the New York Senate , but withdrew his candidacy.

Instead, Chanler ran unsuccessfully for the 37th Congress that same year . In the congressional election of 1862 for the 38th Congress , he was elected as a Democrat in the seventh constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Elijah Ward on March 4, 1863 . He was re-elected twice in a row and then left the Congress after March 3, 1859 . On May 14, 1866, he received a reprimand from the US House of Representatives in the 39th Congress for insulting him.

He died on October 19, 1877 on his Rokeby estate in Barrytown and was then buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.

family

John Winthrop Chanler married Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875), granddaughter of William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875) and niece of Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910). The couple had ten children together, including Congressman William Astor Chanler , Lieutenant Governor Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler , artist Robert Winthrop Chanler, and Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich, who served as a nurse on the American Red Cross during the Spanish-American War . Chanler's eldest son, John Armstrong Chanler, was married to the novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy . Margaret Chanler died shortly after the funeral of her grandfather in December 1875 on the consequences of a pneumonia .

Web links

• John Winthrop Chanler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Winthrop Chanler in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Margaret Astor Chanler, Heroine of Porto Rico," Milwaukee Journal, Sep. 8, 1898, p. 5.
2. ^ Donna M. Lucey, "Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age," Crown Publishing Group, June 26, 2007, ISBN 1-4000-4852-4 .
3. ↑ Lately Thomas: “A pride of lions: the Astor orphans; the Chanler chronicle, " W. Morrow, 1971.