John Beals Chandler
B. Chandler, was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1940 to 1952, and the Member for the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, representing the electorate of Hamilton from the October 1943 by-election to the 1947 state election, where he chose not to seek re-election.In 2021 John Beals Chandler was inducted into the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame.[1] Chandler increasingly focussed on electrical household appliances and opened a larger store as "J.This business grew to become the public company Chandlers Pty Ltd, with 25 stores[1] across Queensland and northern NSW, in 1938.Chandler was a councillor for the Shire of Taringa before the 1925 amalgamation to form Brisbane City Council.