(December 13, 1872 – November 6, 1964), was a surgeon, officer in the National Guard of New York, and state police administrator.

[2] After setting up his practice and beginning work as a physician, Chandler befriended Charles S. Whitman, a fellow young professional with whom he shared a rooming house.

In 1900, he married Martha Marie Shultze, the daughter of the founder of Syracuse University's School of Music.

[2] Chandler served with the National Guard in 1917, when his unit was called up to respond to an invasion on the southern border with Mexico related to forces in its civil war.

Following the collapse of the arrangement with Roosevelt, Chandler proceeded to work on establishing a state police force.

In late 1918, he left New York to serve with the U.S. Army Medical Corps at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia.

[2] He also served on New York's State Crime Commission in the governments of Alfred E. Smith and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.