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Zachariah Chandler Life / Public Service - Biography order - Detroit Post Tribune - 1880 - History American Politicians / Politics - Oratory, Hardcover Book: Zachariah Chandler An Outline Sketch of His Life and Public ServicesAuthor: The Detroit Post and.
order Hardcover Book: Zachariah Chandler An Outline Sketch of His Life and Public Services
Author: The Detroit Post and Tribune
Year: 1880
Publisher: The Post and Tribune Company, Publishers
Condition: heavy cover surface scuffing / staining, edge / wear, pages mellow with age
Zachariah Chandler (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was an American businessman, politician, 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.
As a successful young businessman in Detroit, Chandler supported the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, he advocated for the Union war effort, the abolition of slavery, and civil rights for freed African Americans. As Secretary of the Interior, Chandler eradicated serious corruption in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, fully endorsing President Grant's Peace Policy initiative to civilize American Indian tribes. In 1879, he was re-elected U.S. Senator and was a potential presidential candidate, but he died the following morning after giving a speech in Chicago.