Researching James Chandler
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The name James means "one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
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James Chandler
James Chandler (born January 17, 1948) is the director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and holds the Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Professorship in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago. He was previously the George M. Pullman Professor in English Language & Literature at the same institution.
Chandler is the author of three books on English Romanticism: Wordsworth's Second Nature (1984), England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism, which won the 2000 Gordon J. Laing Award for distinction in academic publishing, and An Archeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema (2013), which examines continuities between the Romantic culture of sentiment and twentieth-century film.
Source: James Chandler, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaJames Watson Chandler
James Watson Chandler (July 18, 1801 – October 3, 1870) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Charlotte County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1857 to 1861.
He was born in Nova Scotia, the son of Samuel Chandler and Susan Watson, and was educated there. He went on to study law, moved to New Brunswick around 1829 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. He set up practice at St. Andrews. In 1843, he married Julia Hatheway. Chandler served as a justice of the peace, a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and a judge in the Probate Court. From 1852 to 1854, he also served on a commission to codify the provincial statutes. Chandler ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1846 and 1854. He was defeated in a bid for reelection in 1861. Chandler supported Confederation and was elected again in 1866. He resigned his seat in 1867 after he was named judge in the courts for Westmorland, Kent, and Albert counties. He died at Moncton at the age of 69.
His cousin Edward Barron Chandler was a Father of Confederation and served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
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