Walter (Clift) CHANDLER, a Representative from
Tennessee; born in Jackson, Madison County, Tenn., October 5, 1887;
attended the public schools and was graduated from the law
department of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1909;
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Memphis, Tenn.; assistant district attorney general in 1916; member
of the State house of representatives in 1917; served in the State
senate 1921-1923; city attorney of Memphis 1928-1934; served as a
captain in the One Hundred and Fourteenth Field Artillery,
Thirtieth Division, American Expeditionary Forces, from July 25,
1917, to April 19, 1919; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1940 and 1944; elected as a Democrat to the
Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, and Seventy-sixth Congresses and
served from January 3, 1935, until his resignation on January 2,
1940, having been elected mayor of Memphis; reelected mayor in 1943
and served until September 1, 1946; resumed the practice of law;
temporary president, Tennessee constitutional convention, in 1953;
mayor of Memphis in 1955 for unexpired term; resided in Memphis,
Tenn., until his death there on October 1, 1967; interment in
Forest Hill Cemetery.