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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MississippiEzekiel Samuel CANDLER, Jr.
(1862-1944)
CANDLER, Ezekiel Samuel,
Jr., (nephew of Milton A. Candler and cousin of Allen Daniel
Candler), a Representative from Mississippi; born in Belleville,
Hamilton County, Fla., January 18, 1862; moved with his parents to
Tishomingo County, Miss., in 1870; attended the common schools and
Iuka (Miss.) Male Academy; was graduated from the law department of
the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1881; was admitted to
the bar the same year and commenced practice in Iuka, Miss.;
chairman of the Democratic executive committee of Tishomingo County
in 1884; moved to Corinth in 1887 and continued the practice of
law; member of the Democratic executive committee of Alcorn County
for several years; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-seventh and
to the nine succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901-March 3, 1921);
chairman, Committee on Alcoholic Liquor Traffic (Sixty-seventh
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920; resumed
the practice of his profession; mayor of Corinth, Miss., 1933-1937;
died in Corinth, Miss., December 18, 1944; interment in Henry
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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