John Chandler
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"John Chandler" was an Politics of the United States/American politician and soldier of Maine. The political career of Chandler, a United States Democratic-Republican Party/Democratic-Republican, was interspersed with his involvement in the state militia during both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.

Chandler was born in Epping, New Hampshire/Epping, New Hampshire, the brother of Thomas Chandler (New Hampshire politician)/Thomas Chandler. His father was a Captain (land and air)/captain in the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War, and had died in 1776. Chandler was self-educated and enlisted in the Continental Army at age 15. After the end of the war, he settled on a farm near Monmouth, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts. At the time, Chandler was both illiterate and without money. However, he had become the protégé of General Henry Dearborn, (1751-1829), a future fifth United States Secretary of War/U.S. Secretary of War (1801-1809), who was also an important commander of the Northeast sector at History of Detroit/Fort Detroit, in the Old Northwest Territory, but a terrible failure during the War of 1812. Chandler borrowed $400 from the Dearborns and bought 200 acres (0.8 km²) of land. He became wealthy as a blacksmith.

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