Joseph Ripley Chandler

Joseph Ripley Chandler

Joseph Ripley Chandler (born August 22, 1792 in Kingston , Plymouth County , Massachusetts , †  July 10, 1880 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Chandler attended the public schools in his home country and then worked in Boston in trade. In 1815 he moved to Philadelphia, where he started a girls' school. Between 1822 and 1847 he published the United States Gazette . Chandler served on the Philadelphia City Council between 1832 and 1848. Politically, he became a member of the Whig Party , founded in the mid-1830s . In 1837 he attended a constitutional convention in Pennsylvania as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1848 Chandler was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Joseph Reed Ingersoll on March 4, 1849 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1855 . These were shaped by the events and discussions leading up to the civil war .

Between 1858 and 1860 Joseph Chandler was the American envoy to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies , based in Naples . He then became a board member at Girard College . Joseph Chandler was also interested in improving penal institutions; in 1872 he took part in an international prison conference in London . He died in Philadelphia on July 10, 1880.

Web links

• Joseph Ripley Chandler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Joseph Reed Ingersoll	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (2nd constituency) March 4, 1849 - March 3, 1855	Job Roberts Tyson
Robert Dale Owen	United States Envoy to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies June 15, 1858 - November 15, 1860	-