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Gov. Albert Benjamin CHANDLER
(1898 –1991)

 

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1. Mildred Lucille WATKINS

Gov. Albert Benjamin CHANDLER 1 2
  • Born: 14 July 1898, near Corydon, Henderson County, Kentucky, USA
  • Marriage (1): Mildred Lucille WATKINS on 12 November 1925 in Keysville, Virginia, USA 1
  • Died: 15 June 1991, Kentucky, USA at age 92
  • Buried: 1991, Pisgah, Woodford County, Kentucky, USA
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bullet  General Notes

Father:  Joseph Sephus Chandler
Mother:  Callie Sanders

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Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, governor of Kentucky from 1935 to 1939, succeeded the iron-fisted Kenesaw Mountain Landis as baseball commissioner and in 1947 became an American icon for a single act that changed not only the face of baseball but also the nation.

He overruled 15 Major League franchise owners and supported Brooklyn Dodgers President and General Manager Branch Rickey in Rickey's signing of a black player, Jackie Robinson, breaking the game's color barrier.

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# Occupation: coach, attorney, politician, baseball commissioner
# Occupation: Owner, publisher, The Woodford Sun
# Education: 1921 AB,Transylvania, 1924 LL.B., U.Ky., 1936 LL.D. Transylvania
# Education: attended Harvard Law, 1937 LL.D. from UK Law
# Religion: Episcopalian, Vestryman, St. John's in Versailles, Ky.
# OFC: Gov. of Ky. 1935-1939 and 1955-1959
# OFC: 1939-45: U.S. Senator
# OFC: 1945-51 National Commissioner of Baseball
# HONO: 1982 Inducted into the Nat'l Baseball Hall of Fame

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • Nickname: Happy.
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Albert married Mildred Lucille WATKINS on 12 November 1925 in Keysville, Virginia, USA.1 (Mildred Lucille WATKINS was born on 23 November 1899 in Keysville, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA and died on 23 January 1995 in prob Kentucky, USA.)


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  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Obituary.


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