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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaAllen Daniel CANDLER
(1834-1910)
CANDLER, Allen Daniel,
(cousin of Ezekiel Samuel Candler, Jr., and Milton Anthony
Candler), a Representative from Georgia; born in Homer, Banks
County, Ga., November 4, 1834; attended country schools, and was
graduated from Mercer University, Macon, Ga., in 1859; studied law;
entered the Confederate Army as a private in Company H,
Thirty-fourth Regiment of Georgia Infantry on May 12, 1862; was
elected first lieutenant May 17, 1862; promoted to captain October
26, 1862; appointed lieutenant colonel May 16, 1864; promoted to
colonel December 27, 1864; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member
of the State house of representatives 1873-1877; served in the
State senate in 1878 and 1879; engaged in manufacturing and was
president of a railroad; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth
and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3,
1891); chairman, Committee on Education (Fiftieth Congress); was
not a candidate for reelection in 1890; secretary of state of
Georgia from May 28, 1894, until March 1, 1898, when he resigned;
served as Governor of Georgia from 1898 to 1902; compiler of the
records of the State of Georgia from 1903 until his death in
Atlanta, Ga., October 26, 1910; interment in Alta Vista Cemetery,
Gainesville, Ga.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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