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ZACHARIAH See also:CHANDLER (1813-1879)
, See also:American politician, was See also:born at See also:Bedford, New See also:Hampshire, on the loth of See also:December 1813
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In 1833 he removed to See also:Detroit, See also:Michigan, where he became a prosperous dry-goods See also:merchant
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He took a prominent See also:part as a Whig in politics (serving as See also:mayor in 1851), and, impelled by his strong See also:anti-See also:slavery views, actively furthered the See also:work of the " Underground Railroad," of which Detroit was one of the See also:principal " See also:transfer " points
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He was one of the organizers in Michigan of the Republican party, and in 1857 succeeded See also:Lewis See also:Cass in the See also:United States See also:Senate, serving until 1875, and at once taking his stand with the most See also:radical opponents of slavery See also:extension
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When the See also:Civil See also:War became inevitable he endeavoured to impress upon the See also:North the See also:necessity of taking extraordinary See also:measures for the preservation of the See also:Union
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After the fall of Fort See also:Sumter he advocated the enlistment of 500,000 instead of 75,000 men for a See also:long instead of a See also:short See also:term, and the vigorous enforcement of See also:confiscation measures
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In See also:July 1862 he made a See also:bitter attack in the Senate on See also:General See also:George B
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McClellan, charging him with incompetency and lack of " See also:nerve." Through-out the war he allied himself with the most radical of the Re-publican See also:faction in opposition to See also:President See also:Lincoln's policy, and subsequently became one of the bitterest opponents of President See also: He died at See also:Chicago, See also:Illinois, on the 1st of See also:November 1879 . By his extra-See also:ordinary force of See also:character he exercised a wide See also:personal See also:influence during his lifetime, but failed to See also:stamp his See also:personality upon any measure or policy of lasting importance . |
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