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JEFFERSON PAUL CHANDLER
CHANDLER, JEFFERSON PAUL, Attorney, Los Angeles, California, was born at St. Joseph, Missouri, January 6, 1873, the son of Jefferson Chandler and Catherine (O’Toole) Chandler. He married Elizabeth Shankland, June 1, 1904, at Los Angeles, California.
He attended the public schools at Washington, D. C., then took a preparatory course at Georgetown University, Washington, going thence to Princeton University, New Jersey, where he graduated in 1893. He studied law at Columbian Law College in Washington. He was admitted to practice in the courts of California the year 1895. He practiced law alone until he went into partnership with H. H. Shankland in 1904, the firm of Shankland and Chandler continuing to date. He is considered a conscientious and able attorney, who masters every case with unusual completeness. His knowledge of the law has become wide. He has fought cases before every court in the State. He represents many important corporations and his firm does a large business outside the State. He is a Democrat and takes an active interest in politics, but never sought or held public office.
He is a member of the Los Angeles Country Club, California Club and Princeton Club of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 742,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2011 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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