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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 Ulysses S. Grant .
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Zachariah Chandler (* 10. Dezember 1813 in Bedford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † 1. November 1879 in Chicago, Illinois) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker der Republikanischen Partei, langjähriger zweimaliger US-Senator für Michigan sowie Innenminister .
Political Affiliation: Radical Republican. Republican Party. Zachariah Chandler (born Dec. 10, 1813, Bedford, N.H., U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1879, Chicago, Ill.) was an American politician, one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
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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.
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.
Senator Ben Wade, representative of Ohio's business interests, preferred the safety of the Whig camp until the future of the antislavery movement was assured,22 while Michigan's Zachariah Chandler, already a power in local Whig politics, was offended by the "ruffianly among Free Soil Radicals.
What is being challenged is only an interpretation of the past. When historians talk about the past, they distinguish between two things: primary and secondary sources. When Zachariah Chandler wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln, he produced a primary source: something constructed in the past by someone in the past.
