Edgar Chandler (minister)


Rev. Dr. Edgar H. S. Chandler was a Congregational minister , U.S. Navy chaplain during World War II, leader of church organizations including the refugee resettlement division of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland and the Church Federation of Greater Chicago, and active leader in civil rights who worked with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders.

Edgar Chandler was born in Providence, Rhode Island, but grew up in Nahant, Massachusetts. His father, Henry J. Chandler, was an engineer at General Electric in Lynn, Massachusetts and later became a Congregational minister.

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