B. Chandler, was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1940 to 1952, and the Member for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, representing the electorate of Hamilton from the October 1943 by-election to the 1947 state election, where he chose not to seek re-election.

In 2021 John Beals Chandler was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.

[1] Chandler increasingly focussed on electrical household appliances and opened a larger store as "J.

This business grew to become the public company Chandlers Pty Ltd, with 25 stores[1] across Queensland and northern NSW, in 1938.

Chandler was a councillor for the Shire of Taringa before the 1925 amalgamation to form Brisbane City Council.

Chandler was elected Lord Mayor in 1940 as the Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO) candidate.