John Winthrop Chanler

John Winthrop Chanler was born in New York City on September 14, 1826, the only son of the Rev. Dr. John White Chanler, an Episcopalian clergyman from Charleston, South Carolina, and Elizabeth Shirreff Winthrop. His mother was a great-great-granddaughter of Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley and a great-great-great granddaughter of Peter Stuyvesant.{{cite book|title=The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York: History, Customs, Record of Events, Constitution, Certain Genealogies, and Other Matters of Interest. V. 1-|date=1905|publisher=Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York|page=32|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CJM-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en}}

Chanler received his early education from private tutors, and graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1847. He attended the University of Heidelberg, studied law, and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1851.

A Democrat affiliated with Tammany Hall, Chanler was member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 10th D.) in 1858 and 1859. He was nominated for New York State Senate in 1860 but declined. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1860 to the Thirty-seventh Congress, losing to the Mozart Hall Democrats.

File:Apathy of the Members A Race for the Wires - Energy of the Reporters The Last Speech on Impeachment (1).png (published in Harper's Weekly) depicting Democratic Congressman Albert G. Burr (left) as sleeping while Chanler (right) delivers a loud speech during debate on the adoption of articles of impeachment in the impeachment of Andrew Johnson]]

Chanler was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869.{{cite web|title=CHANLER, John Winthrop - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000302|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=7 February 2017}}

While in Congress, Chanler served on the Committee of Bankrupt Law, Committee on Patents, Committee on Southern Railroads.{{cite web|title=CHANLER, John Winthrop {{!}} US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives|url=http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/10835|website=history.house.gov|accessdate=30 March 2018|language=en}}

He was known for his censure on May 14, 1866 for an insult to the House of Representatives. The censure stemmed from a resolution he introduced expressing support for the vetoes of President Andrew Johnson, in which Chanler called acts of Congress vetoed by Johnson "wicked and revolutionary," and called House members who overruled the vetoes "malignant and mischievous."Asher Crosby Hinds, [https://archive.org/details/hindsprecedentso03hind/page/798 Hinds' Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States], Volume 2, 1907, page 798

He was defeated in his reelection to the 41st Congress for his hostility to Boss Tweed.

After Tweed was overthrown from running Tammany Hall in 1871, Chanler became a Sachem and Chairman of the General Committee. He ultimately gave up the positions in 1875 due to his declining health.

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File:Mrs. John Winthrop Chanler (Margaret Astor Ward).jpg

File:SOUTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, LOOKING NORTH - La Bergerie, River Road, Barrytown, Dutchess County, NY HABS NY,14-BARTO.V,2-8.tif, the Chanler family estate in Barrytown built in 1811 by John Armstrong Jr., Margaret's great-grandfather]]

In 1862, Chanler married Margaret Astor "Maddie" Ward, whose parents were Samuel Cutler Ward and Emily Astor of the Astor family. She was also a granddaughter of Samuel Ward III and William Backhouse Astor Sr. as well as a great-granddaughter of Samuel Ward Jr., John Jacob Astor, and John Armstrong Jr. Together, John and Margaret had eleven children:{{cite book|title=The World Almanac and Book of Facts|date=1908|publisher=Newspaper Enterprise Association|page=473|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Av1GAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA473|accessdate=7 February 2017|language=en}}

• John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler (1862–1935), who married and later divorced novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (1863–1945).{{cite book|last1=Lucey|first1=Donna M.|title=Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age|date=2007|publisher=Three Rivers Press|isbn=9780307351456|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dhCRoXp8bsYC&q=Archie+and+Amelie:+Love+and+Madness|accessdate=22 February 2018|language=en}}
• Winthrop Astor "Wintie" Chanler (1863–1926), who married Margaret Louisa "Daisy" Terry (1862–1952) in 1886.
• Emily Astor Chanler (1864–1872) who died of scarlet fever
• Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (1866–1937), who married John Jay Chapman (1862–1933) in 1899.
• William Astor "Willie" Chanler (1867–1934), a politician, soldier, and explorer who married Beatrice "Minnie" Ashley (1878–1946)
• Marion Ward Chanler (1868–1883)
• Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (1869–1942), a politician who married Alice Chamberlain (1868–1955) in 1890. After their divorce, he married Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961) in 1921.
• Margaret Livingston Chanler (1870–1963), who served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and who married Richard Aldrich (1863–1937) in 1906.{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=18980908&id=ImIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jCAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2788,5149380 |title="Margaret Astor Chanler, Heroine of Porto Rico," Milwaukee Journal, Sept 8, 1898, p. 5. |access-date=2016-06-30 |archive-date=2016-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312100126/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=18980908&id=ImIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jCAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2788,5149380 |url-status=dead }}
• Robert Winthrop Chanler (1872–1930), an artist who married Julia Remington (1872–1936). After their divorce in 1907, he married Natalina "Lina" Cavalieri (1874–1944){{cite news |title=R. W. Chanler Dead. Eminent As Artist. Picturesque Figure in Life of the Metropolis Succumbs at Country Home at 57. Came of a Noted Family. Former Husband of Lina Cavalieri. Had Once Been Dutchess County Sheriff. Famed for His Murals. Of Distinguished Ancestry. Mural in Luxembourg Museum. Entertained on Large Scale |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/10/25/archives/rw-chanler-dead-eminent-as-artist-picturesque-figure-in-life-of-the.html |quote=Robert Winthrop Chanler, noted artist, died at 1:30 this morning after a long illness. Mr. Chanler had been in a coma for twelve hours..... |agency=Associated Press |work=New York Times |date=October 25, 1930 |accessdate=2013-12-12 }}
• Alida Beekman Chanler (1873–1969),{{cite book|last1=Jacob|first1=Kathryn Allamong|title=King of the Lobby: The Life and Times of Sam Ward, Man-About-Washington in the Gilded Age|date=2010|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801893971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8K1fvejDBQEC&pg=PA158|accessdate=7 February 2017|language=en}} who married Christopher Temple Emmet (1868–1957).{{cite news|title=Marriage Announcement 1 -- EMMET - CHANLER|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/10/28/108259100.html?pageNumber=5|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=October 28, 1896|language=en}}
• Egerton White Chanler (1874–1882), who died of a brain tumor

Margaret died of pneumonia in December 1875 shortly after attending the funeral of William Backhouse Astor Sr.Thomas, Lately. A Pride of Lions: The Astor Orphans; the Chanler Chronicle, W. Morrow, 1971. She was buried at Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.{{cite news|title=BURIAL OF MRS. M.A. CHANLER.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1875/12/17/archives/burial-of-mrs-ma-chanler.html|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=17 December 1875}} In her will, she left $55,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|55000|1875|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) to her husband, $1,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1000|1875|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) a year to her father, and the rest to be divided among her children.{{cite news|title=WILL OF MRS. MARGARET A. CHANLER {{!}} ADMITTED TO PROBATE BY SURROGATE HUTCHINGS - THE DISPOSITION MADE OF HER PROPERTY - BEQUESTS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1875/12/30/archives/law-reports-the-ownership-of-news-has-an-individual-the-right-to.html|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=30 December 1875}}{{cite news|title=W.B. ASTOR'S GRAND CHILDREN.; THEY ARE ALLOWED $30,000 PER YEAR UNTIL THEY ATTAIN THEIR MAJORITY THE WILLS OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN W. CHANLER.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1878/05/23/archives/wb-astors-grand-children-they-are-allowed-30000-per-year-until-they.html|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=23 May 1878}}

John Winthrop Chanler died at his "Rokeby" estate in Barrytown, New York, also of pneumonia, on October 19, 1877.{{cite news|title=OBITUARY. {{!}} John Winthrop Chanler|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1877/10/21/archives/obituary.html|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=21 October 1877}} His funeral was attended by New York Mayor Smith Ely Jr., Hamilton Fish, William Backhouse Astor Jr., John Jacob Astor III, John Reilly, John Kean, Van Horn Stuyvesant, Dr. Austin Flint, and Hamilton Fish, Jr. His pallbearers were Smith Ely, George Warren Dresser, Sidney Webster, Tompkins Westervelt, Carlile Pollock Patterson, Frederic W. Rhinelander, John W. Ehrlinger, and Walter Langdon. He was interred with his wife in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.{{cite news|title=FUNERAL OF JOHN WINTHROP CHANLER.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1877/10/25/archives/funeral-of-john-winthrop-chanler.html|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=25 October 1877}}

According to John Winthrop Chanler's will, his estate was valued between $1,500,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1500000|1877|r=0}}}}) and $2,000,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|2000000|1877|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars).{{cite news|title=JOHN WINTHROP CHANLER'S WILL.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1877/12/21/81717063.html?pageNumber=3|accessdate=7 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=December 21, 1877|language=en}} The executors were Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, Franklin Hughes Delano, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, and Tompkins Westervelt.{{cite news|title=JOHN WINTHROP CHANLER'S WILL.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E06E1DE173EE73BBC4A53DFB767838C669FDE&legacy=true|work=The New York Times|date=2 November 1877}} His eldest son, John Armstrong, inherited Rokeby with all its stock, books, pictures, furniture, and personal property of all kinds, $100,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|100000|1877|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) on reaching the age of majority, all of his real estate in Dutchess County, and a lot of land in Newport, Rhode Island known as "Cliff Lawn."Located at 117 Memorial Blvd., Newport, RI. Built in 1873 by George C. Mason & Son{{cite web|title=Newport History {{!}} Landmarks {{!}} The Chanler at Cliff Walk|url=http://www.thechanler.com/about/ourstory|website=thechanler.com|publisher=The Chanler at Cliff Walk|accessdate=7 February 2017}} To Winthrop Astor, he left all the personal property in his New York City home, located at 192 Madison Avenue, all of his real estate in Delaware County, and a house on Cliff Lawn in Newport. To his daughters, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Alida, he gave all of their mother's jewelry, and a lot in Newport for each of them, as well as to his sons William Astor, Marion Ward, Lewis Stuyvesant, Robert Winthrop, and Egerton White. In addition, the will provided $20,000 (equivalent to ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|20000|1877|r=0}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars) a year for each child for life, enough to live comfortably by the standards of the time.Thomas, Lately. The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions, W. Morrow, 1971. {{ISBN|1881324036}}

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