Charles Lyon Chandler

After being denied a permanent diplomatic appointment he worked for the Southern Railway and the Corn Exchange Bank; at the same time he became a respected independent scholar who helped found the Hispanic American Historical Review.

For his scholarship and promotion of good relations based on shared cultural values, Chandler achieved significant honors in several South American countries—but not in the United States.

At Harvard College he focused on history and political science, studying under Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward Channing and Archibald Cary Coolidge before graduating magna cum laude in 1905.

[3] Already in Europe on a George W. Dillaway fellowship, Chandler obtained a job in the United States Consular Service as the secretary of the American envoy in Portugal, Charles Page Bryan.

[6] According to a contemporary review: Of especial interest and consequence is the account presented of the origin of the Monroe Doctrine, because it is from an entirely fresh point of view, showing that it was Pan-American in its birth and that it was as much desired and as heartily welcomed by the South American peoples as by those of the United States.

The newspaper El Diario reported that "Chandler is a true American, inasmuch as he truly reflects reality; he is very much a latino in his fine projects and in his ideas and conceptions.

[9] Leaving diplomacy, Chandler sustained himself with business jobs instead, working as an agent for the Southern Railway from 1914 to 1918, and as foreign trade manager for the Corn Exchange Bank of Philadelphia from 1918 to 1942.

When the United States entered World War II, Chandler left banking for a job with the government's Rubber Development Corporation.

[15] In retirement he lived in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and taught at a Unitarian Sunday school, preached, and was unofficially involved with the Williams Foundation, an organization dedicated to interchange between the U.S. and Argentina.