Walter Chandler (politician)

Walter Chandler

Walter "Clift" Chandler (born October 5, 1887 in Jackson , Tennessee , †  October 1, 1967 in Memphis , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1940 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Walter Chandler attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and his admission to the bar in 1909, he began to work in his new profession in Memphis. In 1916, he was assistant district attorney. During World War I , Chandler served as captain of an artillery unit in the US Army in Europe between 1917 and 1919 . Politically, Chandler was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1917, he was a member of the House of Representatives from Tennessee before his military service . Between 1921 and 1923 he was a member of the State Senate . From 1928 to 1934, Chandler was a city attorney in Memphis. In 1940 and 1944 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions , at which the incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for re-election.

In the 1934 congressional election , Chandler was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded E. H. Crump on January 3, 1935 . After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on January 2, 1940 . During that time, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed there. Chandler's resignation came after he was elected mayor of Memphis to succeed Joseph Patrick Boyle . He held this office until 1946; then he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1953 he was intermittent president of the Tennessee Constitution Revision Congregation. In 1955 he served once again as Mayor of Memphis. He also died in this city on October 1st, 1967. His son Wyeth was also Mayor of Memphis between 1972 and 1982.

Web links

• Walter Chandler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Walter Chandler in the database of Find a Grave (English)