| 1816 January 26 |
Born in Bristol, New Hampshire. |
| 1842 | Graduates from Dartmouth College. |
| 1843 January |
Moves to New Orleans and reads law under Charles M. Emerson. |
| 1844 February 20 |
Drops his legal career becomes teacher and school principal. |
| 1845 | Editor of New Orleans Tropic. |
| 1847 | Returns to Bristol, New Hampshire and marries Susan H. Sawyer. They will have six children. |
| 1848 | Elected an Alderman representing 3rd Municipal District of New Orleans until 1852. |
| 1852 | Secretary and Treasurer of the Opelousas and Great Western Railroad until 1862. |
| 1861 | Opposes secession and is driven from New Orleans, leaving his family behind. He makes his way to Cairo, Ill.; Columbus, Ohio and New York City. |
| 1862 April |
Returns to New Orleans when it is taken by Union troops. |
| 1862 July 20 - December 10 |
Appointed New Orleans City Treasurer. |
| 1862 December 12 |
Elected to Congress over independent John Bouligny. Brief stay in Washington along with George Michael Hahn from Feb. 3 until March 3, 1863. |
| 1863 July 13 |
Made a Captain of a union regiment (Company C, 5th Regiment Louisiana Volunteers. |
| 1863 August 12 |
Given an Honorable Discharge. |
| 1863 |
Appointed a Special Agent of the Treasury Department of the Southern Region by Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase. He holds this position until 1866. While in office he makes commissions while selling confiscated cotton. |
| 1864 | Campaigns for governor’'s office, running a weak third
place behind George
Michael Hahn and Fellows. Becomes first Supervising Special Agent of
the Freedmen’s Bureau, Department of the Gulf. Flanders leads the movement to create a Republican party in Louisiana. He forms the Friends of Universal Suffrage with other scalawags to promote black suffrage and to repeal the Louisiana black codes. |
| 1865 September |
The Friends of Universal Suffrage holds a meeting of 111 scalawags, carpetbaggers and black delegates. |
| 1867 June 9 |
Sheridan, briefly commander of the 5th Military District,
which includes Louisiana and Texas, removes James
Madison Wells and appoints Flanders governor of Louisiana.
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| 1868 January 1 |
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock is the new commander and removes all radicals from state offices. Flanders resigns. |
| 1870 May |
Governor Henry C. Warmoth appoints Flanders the Mayor of New Orleans. |
| 1870 | Elected to a two year term as Mayor of New Orleans. |
| 1873 | Appointed assistant Treasurer of the United States by President Grant. |
| 1888 | Runs unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for the Louisiana State Treasurer. |
| 1896 | Dies at Ben Alva plantation in Lafayette Parish. |