Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-07

Hon. William E. Chandler, who has | lately been appointed Secretary of the | Navy, is a native of New Hampshire,
 having been born at Concord, Decem-
 Der 2Sth, 1885. Having acquired an ac- | ademic education, he studied law, grad
 uatirg from the Harvard Law School m | 1855, with prize honors for an essay on
 the Introduction of the Principles of Equity Jurisprudence into the Admins tratlOn of the Common Law. A year later he commenced practice at the bar,
 and iP June 1859, was appointed Law
 Reporter ofthe New Hampshire Supreme
 Court, and published five volumes of Re
 was member of the New hampslIIre
 Legislature in 1862, '63, and '64, and was
 Speaker of the House during the last
 two years, including the eventful con-
 fiiet and riotous disturbances over the veto by Governor Gilmore of the Sol dier'sVOting Bill. In November, 1861, he was employed by the Navy Depart ment as special counsel to prosecute the Philadelphia Navy Yard frauds, and on March 9th, 1865, was appointed by Pres ident LIneoln the first Solicitor and Judge Advocate General of that Depart
 
 appointed First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury with Secretary McCullOch, and held the office a little over two years, resignlng November 3Oth, 1867. Since that time MT. Chandler has prac- ticed law in New Hampshire and in Washington; has been solicitor of the National Life Insurance Company of Washington, counsel and one of the proprietOrs of the Washington Market Company, and has engaged i'll some mining and railroad enterprises; and has also been the principal owner of the Monitor and Statesman, the leading dai- ly and weekly Republican newspapers of New Hampshire, at Concord.
 NIT. Chandler's political career has been marked by great activity and prom | inencc. He was several times Secretary of the Republican State Committee of New Hampshire, and Chairman during | the eventful campaigns of 1863, 1884 and ! 1865. He was delegate at-large to the | National Convention of 1888, and SO re- | mained during the campaigns of 1868 | and 1872 In November, 1876, he was | elected from Concord a member of the l New Hampshire Constitutional COnven- | ton, but was in attendance only two | days at its session, being then in Florida | as counsel for the Hayes electors before | the Canvassing Board of that State. He | vigorously opposed the surrender by the | Hayes Administration of the State Gov ernmenrs of Louisiana and South Caro- l lima to the Democrat claimants, and pub | hshed vigorous letters in December, l 1877, attacking such surrender and the l Southern policy of the Administration. | He headed the Blaine delegates from | New Hampshire to the Republican Ma tiOnal Convention in 1880, and was prom | inent in the National Committee prior | to the Convention and as a member | of the Committee on Credentials which | made the successful report in favor If Dis trict representation. He r, mained mem- ] Der of the National Committee and acted | upon it's Executive Committee during | the campaign. He was nominated on | March 23d, 1881, at the request of Seere- | tary Blaine, by President Garfield, as | in the Department of | Justice; but his confirmation was Op- posed by AttOrney-General McVsagh, | by Senator Cameron, and also by all the | Democratic Senators, on account of his | extreme radlcalism on the Southern | question, and, the New York Senators | being absent, hlS EOmInatIOn was finally | More recently NIT. Chandler | has bren conspicuous in urging the | adoption m New Hampshire of a num- Der of measures aimed at the railroad | ring which has long dominated the railroad system as well as the politics | and 2, neral government of the State. | His platform briefly stated, on the anti monopoly question is no consolidation of railroads, especially of roads with | larger companies outside the State; the | creation of tribunal for controlling, | regulating and reducing transportation rates, and the destruction of discrimina- tions and of free passes. This platform IS growing in popularity, and the indica- tions now are that the candidates who may be nominated upon 1t will sweep the State. NIT. Chandler in his new and responsible position will acquit himself with credit to himself and to the Ad-