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{{Officeholder
|name=Zachariah T. Chandler
|image=
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Letitia Douglas
|religion=[[Presbyterian]]<ref>[https://historicdetroit.org/buildings/fort-street-presbyterian-church Fort Street Presbyterian Church]. ''HistoricDetroit.org''. Retrieved August 10, 2021.</ref>
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Michigan
|terms=February 22, 1879 – November 1, 1879
|preceded=Isaac P. Christiancy
|status=f
|succeeded=Henry B. Baldwin
}}
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Michigan
|terms=March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1875
|preceded=Lewis Cass
|status=f
|succeeded=Isaac P. Christiancy
}}
{{Officeholder/mayor
|number=
|city=[[Detroit|Detroit, Michigan]]
|terms=1851–1852
|preceded=John Ladue
|status=f
|succeeded=John H. Harmon
}}
}}
'''Zachariah T. Chandler''' (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was a staunch [[abolitionist]] and [[Whig]]-turned-[[Republican]] from [[Michigan]] who served as the state's U.S. senator from 1957 to 1975, as well as for a brief period in 1879. During the presidency of [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Chandler was appointed [[Secretary of the Interior]]. Considered a "roughhewn, grim-visaged, hard-drinking, plain-speaking man,"<ref name=encyclopedia.com>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/zachariah-chandler Zachariah Chandler]. ''Encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved August 10, 2021.</ref> he was the father-in-law and grandfather of later [[Maine]] senators Eugene Hale and [[Frederick Hale]] respectively.
'''Zachariah T. Chandler''' (December 10, 1813 – November 1, 1879) was a staunch [[abolitionist]] and [[Whig]]-turned-[[Republican]] from [[Michigan]] who served as the state's U.S. senator from 1957 to 1975, as well as for a brief period in 1879. During the presidency of [[Ulysses S. Grant]], Chandler was appointed [[Secretary of the Interior]]. Considered a "roughhewn, grim-visaged, hard-drinking, plain-speaking man,"<ref name=encyclopedia.com>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/zachariah-chandler Zachariah Chandler]. ''Encyclopedia.com''. Retrieved August 10, 2021.</ref> he was the father-in-law and grandfather of later [[Maine]] senators Eugene Hale and [[Frederick Hale]] respectively.