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  1. Signature. Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was an American businessman, politician, and one of the founders of the Republican Party, whose radical wing he dominated as a lifelong abolitionist. He was mayor of Detroit, a four-term senator from the state of Michigan, and Secretary of the Interior under President ...

  2. Zachariah Chandler was a Republican politician from Michigan who served as secretary of the interior from 1875 to 1877. He tried to reform the department and was later elected to the Senate, where he died in 1879.

  3. Learn about Zachariah Chandler, a Detroit mayor, a U.S. Senator, and the Secretary of the Interior under President Ulysses S. Grant. He was a Radical Republican who supported abolition, civil rights, and the Union Army during the Civil War.

  4. May 11, 2018 · Zachariah Chandler was born on Dec. 10, 1813, on a farm in Bedford Township, N.H. After attending district schools, he joined the tide of westward migration from New England and settled in the frontier city of Detroit in 1833. He opened a general store, and by shrewd investments of his profits in banking, commercial enterprises, and land he ...

  5. Title Zachariah Chandler; an outline sketch of his life and public services. Names Pierson, Arthur T., 1837-1911.

  6. Senator from Michigan (Republican, 1857-1875), Zachariah Chandler was a Radical Republican and a member of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. He was a frequent visitor to the White House with Senators Benjamin Wade and Lyman Trumbull whom John Hay called the “Jacobin Club.”. Brash, stubborn, coarse, pugnacious, straightforward ...

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  8. Nov 10, 2015 · Title. Zachariah Chandler: An Outline Sketch of His Life and Public Services. Credits. Produced by Richard Tonsing, Andrew Sly, Mark C. Orton and. the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at. http: //www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images. generously made available by The Internet Archive/American.