Zachariah Chandler
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican politician (1813-1879)
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Zachariah Chandler 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 Ulysses S. Grant.
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Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1860-1865
Chandler castigated General George McClellan's prosecution of the Civil War.
President Grant ordered Chandler to fire all the corrupt clerks in the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Chandler in a depiction by The Detroit Post and Tribune, 1880![Chandler at the National Statuary Hall. His statue has returned to Michigan since the state Legislature voted in 2007 to replace it with a statue of Gerald Ford.[17] His statue now rests in the atrium of Constitution Hall in Lansing, Michigan.[18]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Zachariah_Chandler_Statue.jpg)
Chandler at the National Statuary Hall. His statue has returned to Michigan since the state Legislature voted in 2007 to replace it with a statue of Gerald Ford.[17] His statue now rests in the atrium of Constitution Hall in Lansing, Michigan.[18]Politicians from United States 6
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United StatesCategory
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1813 to 1879 · aged 65
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