Robert Chandler

Robert J. Chandler received his doctorate from the University of California, Riverside, in 1978 for a dissertation on the “Press and Civil Liberties in California during the Civil War, 1861-1865.” Following that, he was senior research historian for the History Department of Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, for 32 years. Both opportunities trained him to write numerous articles and books on 19th-century California, including San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown (2014), Wells Fargo (2006), and California: An Illustrated History (2004). He is also a past president of the century-old Book Club of California and served as editor of its Quarterly News-Letter for 17 years.