Henry Wilkins Chandler (September 22, 1852 – 1938) was an American lawyer, newspaperman, politician, and federal official.

[1][2] Chandler received his primary education at Bath's public schools and enrolled in Bates College in 1870.

He went on to become an editor of the college's student-run newspaper, The Bates Student, and served on the executive committee of the Eurosophian Literary Society.

[7] When U.S. President Woodrow Wilson dismissed all African American federal officials in Florida in 1913 he lost his job as inspector of customs in the town of Port Tampa.

[9] They had at least six children,[10] including their eldest son, Edward Marion Augustus Chandler (1887–1973), who was the second African American in the United States to receive a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a founding faculty member at Roosevelt University in Chicago.