John W. Candler

John Wilson Candler (February 10, 1828 – March 16, 1903) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Boston on February 10, 1828. He attended the Marblehead and Dummer Academies. He then became a merchant, engaged in shipping and commerce with the East and West Indies and South America. He served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was chairman of the commissioners of prisons of Massachusetts, and president of the Boston Board of Trade and of the Commercial Club of Boston.

John W. Candler
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts
In office March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	William Claflin
Succeeded by	William A. Russell
Constituency	8th district
In office March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891
Preceded by	Edward Burnett
Succeeded by	George F. Williams
Constituency	9th district
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1866–1866
Personal details
Born	February 10, 1828 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	March 16, 1903 (aged 75) Providence, Rhode Island
Resting place	Mount Auburn Cemetery
Political party	Republican

Candler married Lucy Almira Cobb on September 1, 1851 in Boston. Cobb was the daughter of Henry and Augusta Adams Cobb. Her mother Augusta, however, had converted to Mormonism in 1832 and abandoned the family in 1843 to marry Brigham Young as his second polygamous wife. After bearing three daughters, Lucy Cobb Candler died in 1855 and John Wilson Candler then married Ida May Garrison of Manhattan in 1867, and they had one daughter.

Candler was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress, but was elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891). He again was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He returned to engage in mercantile pursuits until his retirement in 1893. He died in Providence, Rhode Island on March 16, 1903. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

References

• United States Congress. "John W. Candler (id: C000111)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Toomey, Daniel P., Massachusetts of today Massachusetts Board of Managers, World's Fair, page 105 (1893).