
Allen Daniel Candler (4 November 1834-26 October 1910) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-GA 9) from 4 March 1883 to 3 March 1891 (succeeding Emory Speer and preceding Thomas E. Winn) and the Demcratic Governor of Georgia from 29 October 1898 to 25 October 1902 (succeeding William Yates Atkinson and preceding Joseph M. Terrell).
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Allen Daniel Candler was born in Auraria, Georgia in 1834, and he became a lawyer and schoolteacher in 1859. He served in the Confederate 34th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Western theater of the American Civil War, and he was wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain and lost an eye at the 1865 Battle of Jonesboro. After the war, he settled in Jonesboro and Gainesville, and he was elected Mayor of Gainesville in 1872. Candler went on to serve in the State House from 1873 to 1878, in the State Senate from 1878 to 1880, in the US House of Representatives from 1883 to 1891, and as Governor from 1898 to 1902. He was known as a fiscally onservative governor (even as he was one of the most liberal congressmen of his class), cutting back both taxes and government expenditures, establishing a whites-only Democratic primary, securing pensions for Confederate widows, and blaming the Black victims of lynchings for their circumstances while publicly criticizing the practice. He served as the state compiler of records from 1902 until his death in 1910.