Willard Harris Chandler (November 18, 1830 – March 24, 1901) was an American educator, farmer, and Republican politician.

[1][4][5] He married Lucinda Wellman (1830–1893) in 1854 and they moved to Wisconsin that same year.

[1] After the death of his first wife, he married Harriet Adelaide Salisbury (1845–1898) in 1895.

He was elected to the Senate in 1863, where he eventually became president pro tem.

[4] He was the Republican nominee for state superintendent of education in 1892, coming in second with 169,739 votes to 176,666 for the incumbent, Democrat Oliver Elwin Wells; 13,258 for Prohibitionist L. Wesley Underwood; and 9,784 for Populist Charles Hatch.