A chandler is a maker or seller of candles.

Chandler may also refer to:

People

Chandler (surname), the surname of various people

Chandler Bing, a fictional character on the TV series Friends

Ship chandler, a dealer in special supplies or equipment for ships

The head of the chandlery in medieval households, responsible for wax, candles, and soap

Places

Chandler (place), the name of various places

Ships

Two ships of the United States Navy named USS Chandler:

* USS Chandler (DD-206), (1919-1945), named after William E. Chandler

* USS Chandler (DDG-996), (1982-), named after Theodore E. Chandler

Other

Chandler (band), a Christian band from Georgia, USA

Chandler (racehorse), winner of the 1848 Grand National steeplechase

Chandler (software), personal information management software by the Open Source Applications Foundation

, a 1976 graphic novel by Jim Steranko

Chandler Motor Car, a 1920s maker of automobiles in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

A Californian variety of pomelo, a citrus fruit native to Southeast Asia

See also

Caption	Kyle Chandler, December 2008
Birthname	Kyle Martin Chandler
Birth date	September 17, 1965
Birth place	Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Spouse	Kathryn Chandler (1995-present)

Kyle Martin Chandler (born September 17, 1965) is an American film and television actor best known for his roles in the television shows Early Edition as Gary Hobson and as Eric Taylor in Friday Night Lights.

Personal life

Chandler was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Sally, a dog breeder, and Edward Chandler, a farm owner and cigarette sales representative. He was raised in Loganville, Georgia, where he attended George Walton Academy [Monroe, GA] and educated at the University of Georgia, in Athens, where he was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity and a Drama Major. He is married to Kathryn Chandler, who is a television writer, and has two daughters named Sydney and Sawyer. They currently live in Los Angeles, California.

Career

Chandler was signed by an ABC scout in 1988 on a talent search. Chandler's first major role on television was as the Cleveland Indians rightfielder Jeff Metcalf in the ABC show Homefront. Homefront was a drama set in the early 1940s during World War II in the fictional town of River Run, Ohio. In his next television role, Kyle moved from the past to play a man who had the ability to change future disasters as the central character in the CBS television series Early Edition. He portrayed bar owner Gary Hobson, a stockbroker turned hero who received "tomorrow's newspaper today," delivered to his door by a mysterious cat. In 1996 he received the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television for his portrayal of Gary.

Subsequently, Chandler appeared opposite Joan Cusack as investment banker Jake Evans in the short-lived ABC comedy series What About Joan. In a departure from his usual good guy roles, Chandler played scheming lawyer Grant Rashton in the short-lived series The Lyon's Den. Other roles on Chandler's resume include: William Griner, Tour of Duty, and 1930s B-actor Bruce Baxter (who was based on Bruce Cabot, the actor who played Jack Driscoll in the original King Kong) in the 2005 film King Kong. Coincidentally he would later go on to play John Driscoll in The Day the Earth Stood Still.

In February 2006, Chandler appeared as the ill-fated bomb squad leader Dylan Young in "It's The End of The World" & "As We Know It", a two-part episode on the ABC series Grey's Anatomy that followed the 2006 Super Bowl. He received substantial notice and press for the appearance as a result and subsequently received a nomination in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series category for the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. He appeared again in the February 15, 2007 episode of Grey's Anatomy: "Drowning On Dry Land", and the February 22, 2007 episode: "Some Kind of Miracle". In July, 2009, Kyle Chandler appeared in a television commercial for teachers, directed by Emmy nominee Brent Roske.

Following his Emmy-nominated guest role in Grey's Anatomy, Kyle Chandler is currently starring as Coach Eric Taylor in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights, which follows the lives of a high-school football coach and his players in a small Texas town. The series is inspired by the and movie of the same name. The show's pilot aired on October 3, 2006. Friday Night Lights is broadcast at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesdays on DirecTV Channel 101.

In 2007, he appeared in the big screen movie The Kingdom. In December 2008, he appeared in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Filmography

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Produced

Early Edition (1999–2000, 22 Episodes)

Directed

Early Edition (2000, 1 Episode - "Occasionally Amber")

Friday Night Lights (2010, 1 Episode - "Small Town")

Awards and nominations

Saturn Award

1997: Won, "Best Genre TV Actor" - Early Edition

Emmy Award

2006: Nominated, "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series" - Grey's Anatomy

2010: Nominated, "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series" - Friday Night Lights

Television Critics Association Awards

2007: Nominated, "Individual Achievement in Drama" - Friday Night Lights

References

External links

Kyle Chandler — Friday Night Lights

Kyle Chandler Myspace Page

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Name	Happy Chandler
Office	49th Governor of Kentucky
Term start	December 13, 1955
Term end	December 8, 1959
Predecessor	Lawrence W. Wetherby
Successor	Bert T. Combs
Jr/sr2	United States Senator
State2	Kentucky
Term start2	October 10, 1939
Term end2	November 5, 1945
Predecessor2	M. M. Logan
Successor2	William A. Stanfill
Office3	44th Governor of Kentucky
Term start3	December 10, 1935
Term end3	October 9, 1939
Predecessor3	Ruby Laffoon
Successor3	Keen Johnson
Birth date	July 14, 1898
Birth place	Corydon, Kentucky
Death date	June 15, 1991
Death place	Versailles, Kentucky
Party	Democratic
Alma mater	Transylvania UniversityHarvard Law SchoolUniversity of Kentucky
Occupation	Lawyer
Branch	United States Army
Serviceyears	1918-1919
Rank	Private
Battles	World War I

Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (July 14, 1898 June 15, 1991) was the 44th and 49th Governor of Kentucky, a U.S. Senator, the second commissioner of Major League Baseball, from 1945 to 1951 and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His jovial attitude earned him the nickname "Happy," which stuck for the remainder of his life.

Chandler's first term as governor is still regarded as one of the most productive of any Kentucky governor. Following on this success, he unsuccessfully tried to unseat Senate Majority Leader and fellow Kentuckian Alben Barkley, but was appointed to the Senate shortly after the election due to the death of the state's junior senator. He would later resign this position to become Commissioner of Baseball, steering it through the difficult period of integration, which many contend led to his not being offered a second contract for the position. Instead, twenty years after his first term as governor of Kentucky, Chandler returned to the Governor's Mansion using the slogan "Be Like Your Pappy and Vote For Happy."

Later in life, Chandler's commitment to civil rights was questioned as he supported Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's bid for President. Having been elected to his first term at the age of 37, Kentucky's "Boy Governor" was both the last surviving governor of any U.S. state to serve before 1939 and the last living Senator to have served before 1940 by the time of his death in 1991.

Early life

Chandler was born in Corydon, Henderson County Kentucky the son of Joseph Sephus and Callie Saunders-Chandler. His childhood was a difficult one. According to his autobiography, his earliest memory was his mother abandoning the family when he was four years old. Though cared for by his father and other relatives, by age eight, he was selling newspapers to supplement the family's income. At sixteen, his fourteen-year-old brother died after falling from a tree while picking cherries.

Chandler graduated from Transylvania in 1921, taking with him both a bachelor's degree and his life-long nickname, "Happy," which he was given because of his jovial attitude. From there, Chandler studied at Harvard Law School, coaching high school athletics to earn money. He returned to Lexington in 1922, attaining a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Kentucky two years later. Again, he funded his education by coaching high school sports in nearby Versailles. and created a pension fund for the state's teachers. In 1936, he allocated $2 million ($}} in current dollar terms) to improve the state's rural roads and led the state to participate in the federal Rural Electrification Act. He also provided for free textbooks for students in public schools, and dramatically increased funding for schools, colleges, and universities in the state. By the end of Chandler's first year in office, University of Kentucky president Frank L. McVey proclaimed that "much more has been accomplished than would have been thought possible." It was also during his time in the Senate that he developed a friendship with comedian Bob Hope.

Commissioner of Baseball

When baseball's first commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, died in 1944, an official in the War Department began campaigning for Chandler's election to the post. Despite being the last candidate put forth in the April 1945 meetings, he was elected by a unanimous vote of the team owners, and resigned his Senate seat in October of that year. In 1946, he helped Grafton, North Dakota, where he had played baseball during college, dedicate a new baseball field, which the city named Chandler Field in his honor. Before the start of the 1947 season, Chandler suspended Durocher for the entire season, citing "conduct detrimental to baseball." The Dodgers went on to win the pennant that season under replacement manager Burt Shotton. During his service, he presided over the establishment of a pension fund for players, but his most significant contribution was overseeing the initial steps toward integration of the major leagues, beginning with the debut of Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. This move was controversial with some team owners, who voted 15-1 against integrating the sport in a secret January 1947 meeting. The Dodgers' Branch Rickey met with Chandler, who agreed to back the team's move. Chandler's stance was credited by many in the sports community with Chandler's failure to be selected for another term as Commissioner after the expiration of his first one in 1951. :"I've already done a lot of thinking about this whole racial situation in our country. As a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, I got to know a lot about our casualties during the war. Plenty of Negro boys were willing to go out and fight and die for this country. Is it right when they came back to tell them they can't play the national pastime? You know, Branch, I'm going to have to meet my Maker some day. And if He asks me why I didn't let this boy play, and I say it's because he's black, that might not be a satisfactory answer. :If the Lord made some people black, and some white, and some red or yellow, he must have had a pretty good reason. It isn't my job to decide which colors can play big league baseball. It is my job to see that the game is fairly played and that everybody has an equal chance. I think if I do that, I can face my Maker with a clear conscience."

Second term as governor

After being forced out as Commissioner of Baseball, Chandler returned to Versailles and continued to practice law. His hiatus from public life would be short lived, however. While prohibited by the Kentucky Constitution from serving consecutive terms as governor, nothing prohibited Chandler from seeking a second gubernatorial term in 1955, twenty years after his first bid. He secured the Democratic nomination over challenger Bert T. Combs, and took the general election from Republican Edwin R. Denney by landslide. This move had alienated him from some in his own party at the state level as well.

In his last years, Chandler remained active as a member of the Boards of Trustees of both Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky. He later apologized for his comments.

Legacy

Chandler was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982. At age 89, he collaborated with author Vance Trimble to pen his autobiography, Heroes, Plain Folks, and Skunks. Kentucky governors still host a breakfast at the Governor's Mansion on the morning of the Kentucky Derby, a tradition started by Governor and Mrs. Chandler in 1936.

Chandler died in Versailles, Kentucky on June 15, 1991. According to his family, he died of a heart attack. He was buried at the Pisgah Church Cemetery in Versailles.

References

External links

Baseball Hall of Fame – Member biography

Video of Happy Chandler singing "My Old Kentucky Home" at a University of Kentucky basketball game in 1988

Happy Chandler's plaque at the National Baseball Hall of Fame

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