Editing William E. Chandler (section)

===Later (20th Century)===
Chandler was appointed by President [[William McKinley]] to the [[Spanish Treaty Claims Commission]] in 1901.  He was the president of the Commission from its inception until 1907 when its work was nearly complete.

In 1907, Chandler served as the lead counsel during the [[Next Friends Suit (1907)|Next Friends Suit]], a legal challenge over the estate of [[Mary Baker Eddy]], the leader of the [[Church of Christ, Scientist|Christian Science church]]. The trial was headline news across the country. He would lose the case.<ref>{{cite web |title=How Factual Evidence Subdued Tabloid Fiction in the Next Friends Suit of 1907 |url=https://www.longyear.org/learn/research-archive/next-friends-suit-1907/ |website=Longyear Museum|date=September 10, 1995 }}</ref><ref>Peel, Robert (1977). ''[https://archive.org/details/marybakereddyaut00peel Mary Baker Eddy : the years of authority]''. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston.</ref>

Leaving public office, Chandler resumed the practice of law in Concord and Washington, D.C.