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Walter Chandler

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Walter "Clift" Chandler (October 5, 1887October 1, 1967) was an American politician from Tennessee. After Chandler served as an officer in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, he served in both houses of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state's legislature, and was the U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 9th Congressional District from 1935 to 1940. He then served two terms as the Mayor of Memphis, from 1940 to 1946, and then again in 1955. Chandler filed the well-known U.S. Supreme Court case Baker v. Carr. His son J. Wyeth Chandler also served as Mayor of Memphis from 1972 until 1982.

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