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��In 18S0 he was elected at the head of the ticket of Blaine delegates from New Hampshire to the Chicago con- vention, and was especially active in the contests in the national committee prior to the convention, and as a mem- ber of the committee on credentials, of which Senator Conger was chair- man, and which made the successful report in favor of district representa- tion.

When his favorite candidate was withdrawn in the convention, he sup- ported General Garfield, and during the campaign which resulted in his elec- tion was a member of the national committee and served on the execu- tive committee.

On March 23, 1881, he was nomi- nated, by President Garfield, as Solici- tor-General in the Department of Justice ; but his confirmation was op- posed by Attorney-General MacVeagh, and also by all the Democratic sena- tors, on account of his extreme radi- calism on the southern question. The Republicans, with Vice-President Ar- thur's vote, would have had one majority ; but the whole Democratic vote, the absence of the New York senators, the abstention of Senator Mitchell, and the adverse vote of Sen- ator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, caused his rejection, on May 20, by five ma- jority.

Mr. Chandler had been, in Novem- ber, 18S0, elected a member from Concord in the state legislature, which assembled in June, 18S1, and he took a leading position. He favored strin-

��gent legislation against bribery at elec- tions, and against the issuing of" free passes by railroads, and was in favor of controlling by law the regulation of freight and fares upon all railroads within the state.

��The latest honor conferred upon Mr. Chandler was his selection by Presi- dent Arthur as a member of his cabi- net. He was nominated, April 7, 1882, for Secretary of the Navy, and con- firmed April 12, by a vote of twenty- eight to sixteen ; he qualified and took possession of the office, April 17, 1882.

Mr. Chandler has been twice mar- ried, — in 1859 to a daughter of Gov- ernor Joseph A. Gilmore, and in 1874 to a daughter of Hon. John P. Hale. He has three sons, — Joseph Gilmore, born in i860 ; William Dwight, in 1863 ; and Lloyd Horvvitz, in 1869. Mr. Chandler's father died in 1862. His mother is still living in Concord. He has two brothers, — John K. Chand- ler, formerly a merchant in Boston and the East Indies, now residing on a farm in Canterbury, N. H. ; and George H. Chandler, who was first adjutant and afterward major of the Ninth New Hampshire regiment, and is now a lawyer in Baltimore. Mr. Chandler's father was a Whig, a man of great intelligence and firmness of character. His mother is a woman of equally positive traits, and has contrib- uted much to the formation of the character which has given success to her sons.

��THE HOME OF THE GILMANS.

��BY FRED MYRON COLBY. [CONCLUDED.]

In 1 781 Mr. Gilman succeeded Gen. the youngest man in congress, but his Sullivan as a member of the Federal influence was not the least. At the congress, and was re-elected the sue- end of his service in congress, he suc- ceeding year. He was at that time ceeded his father as treasurer of the

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