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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Wilson CANDLER
(1828-1903)
CANDLER, John Wilson, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., February
10, 1828; attended the Marblehead Academy and Dummer Academy,
Byfield, Mass.; entered a countingroom in Boston in 1845; merchant,
engaged in shipping and commerce with the East and West Indies and
South America; served as a member of the Massachusetts house of
representatives in 1866; chairman of the commissioners of prisons
of Massachusetts; president of the Boston Board of Trade and of the
Commercial Club of Boston; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress;
elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1891);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second
Congress; engaged in mercantile pursuits until his retirement in
1893; died in Providence, R.I., March 16, 1903; interment in Mount
Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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