Theodore Edson Chandler (December 26, 1894 – January 7, 1945) was a rear admiral of the United States Navy during World War II, who commanded battleship and cruiser divisions in both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets.

He was killed in action when a Japanese kamikaze aircraft struck his flagship Louisville on January 6, 1945, in Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands.

On August 2, he completed that assignment and four days later joined the precommissioning complement of the destroyer Conner, then being fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

[3] In May 1918, Lieutenant junior grade Chandler sailed in Conner to Brest, France, his destroyer's base during the last six months of World War I.

[3] In June 1926, newly promoted Lieutenant Commander Chandler went ashore once more for a two-year assignment at the Naval Mine Depot, Yorktown, Virginia.

He reported on board the auxiliary vessel General Alava on April 24, 1929, but was detached only two days later to assume command of the destroyer Pope.

In October 1930, he began another series of shore assignments, reporting initially to the Bureau of Ordnance and then to the Army Industrial College before rounding out duty ashore with a brief tour in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

He arrived in Camden, New Jersey, in June 1938 to help fit out the light cruiser Nashville; and he served as her executive officer until July 1940.

That ship—although bearing the name Willmoto and purportedly operating out of Philadelphia—proved to be the German blockade runner Odenwald, bound for Germany with 3,857 metric tons of raw rubber in her holds.

That tour of duty ended in April 1943, when Chandler was selected to command United States naval forces in the Aruba-Curaçao area.

In that capacity, he participated in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France in mid-August, and commanded the "Sitka-Romeo" force which captured the Iles d'Hyeres just off the coast of Provence.