Rod Chandler

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Rodney Dennis "Rod" Chandler (born July 13, 1942 in La Grande , Union County , Oregon ) is an American politician . Between 1983 and 1993 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Rodney Chandler is a great-great-great-nephew of Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879), who was US Secretary of the Interior from 1875 to 1877 and Senator for the State of Michigan from 1877 to 1879 . He attended public schools in his home country including Eastern Oregon College at La Grande, which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1968 . Then he worked as a television journalist. Between 1959 and 1964 he was a member of the Oregon National Guard.

Politically, Chandler joined the Republican Party . Between 1974 and 1982 he was a member of the Washington House of Representatives . In 1976, 1978 and 1980 he was a delegate to the Republican party conventions in Washington state. In the 1982 election , he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the newly created eighth congressional electoral district of his state , where he took office on January 3, 1983. He won four elections and exercised his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1993.. In 1992, Chandler declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully against Patty Murray in the Senate election .

In 2004 he received a Master of Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas . In 2006 and 2007, Chandler taught political science at Eaglercrest High School in Centennial , Colorado . Today he lives in Aurora , Colorado.

Web links

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