Early Life and Career
Theodore Edson Chandler was born at Annapolis, Maryland, in 1894 on the day after Christmas. He entered the United States Naval Academy in July 1911, and graduated on 5 June 1915. The new officer received orders to report for duty in the battleship Florida (BB-30). Ensign Chandler next served briefly on board New Hampshire (BB-25) beginning training in the use of torpedoes at the end of April 1917. On 2 August, he completed that assignment and, four days later, joined the precommissioning complement of the destroyer Conner (DD-72), then being fitted out at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
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