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CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH (1813-1879)

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CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH (1813-1879) , See also:

AMERICAN

American politician, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

BEDFORD

Bedford, New See also:

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

Hampshire, on the loth of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1813. In 1833 he removed to See also:

DETROIT

Detroit, See also:

Michigan, where he became a prosperous dry-goods See also:

MERCHANT (O. Fr. marcheant, modern marchand; from Lat. mercari, to trade, merx, goods, merchandise)

merchant. He took a prominent See also:

PART

part as a Whig in politics (serving as See also:

mayor in 1851), and, impelled by his strong See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

anti-See also:

SLAVERY

slavery views, actively furthered the See also:

WORK

work of the " Underground Railroad," of which Detroit was one of the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal " See also:

TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer " points. He was one of the organizers in Michigan of the Republican party, and in 1857 succeeded See also:

Lewis See also:

CASS, LEWIS (1782–1866)

Cass in the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate, serving until 1875, and at once taking his stand with the most See also:

RADICAL (Lat. radix, a root)

radical opponents of slavery See also:

EXTENSION (Lat. ex, out ; tendere, to stretch)

extension. When the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War became inevitable he endeavoured to impress upon the See also:

North the See also:

NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas)

necessity of taking extraordinary See also:

MEASURES

measures for the preservation of the See also:

Union. After the fall of Fort See also:

Sumter he advocated the enlistment of 500,000 instead of 75,000 men for a See also:

long instead of a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

TERM

term, and the vigorous enforcement of See also:

CONFISCATION (from Lat. confiscare, to consign to the fiscus, or imperial treasury)

confiscation measures. In See also:

JULY

July 1862 he made a See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter attack in the Senate on See also:

General See also:

George B. McClellan, charging him with incompetency and lack of " See also:

NERVE (Lat. nervus, Gr. vevpov, a bowstring)

nerve." Through-out the war he allied himself with the most radical of the Re-publican See also:

FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

faction in opposition to See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

Lincoln's policy, and subsequently became one of the bitterest opponents of President See also:

Johnson's See also:

plan of reconstruction. From See also:

OCTOBER

October 1875 to See also:

March 1877 he was secretary of the interior in the See also:

CABINET

cabinet of President See also:

Grant, succeeding See also:

Columbus Delano (1809-1896). In 1876, as chairman of the See also:

NATIONAL

national republican See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee, he managed the See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign of See also:

HAYES, RUTHERFORD BIRCHARD (1822–1893)

Hayes against See also:

TILDEN, SAMUEL JONES (1814-1886)

Tilden. In See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1879 he was re-elected to the Senate to succeed See also:

ISAAC (Hebrew for " he laughs," on explanatory references to the name, see ABRAHAM)

Isaac P. Christiancy (1812-189o), and soon afterwards, in a speech concerning Mexican War See also:

PENSIONS

pensions, bitterly denounced See also:

Jefferson See also:

He died at See also:

Chicago, See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois, on the 1st of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1879. By his extra-See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary force of See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character he exercised a wide See also:

PERSONAL

personal See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence during his lifetime, but failed to See also:

STAMP (from " to stamp," to strike or tread heavily, hence to impress, O. Eng. stempen, Du. stampen, Ger. stampfen, whence, O. Fr. estamper, mod. etamper)

stamp his See also:

PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality upon any measure or policy of lasting importance.

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