Allen D. Candler

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Allen D. Candler

Allen Daniel Candler (born November 4, 1834 in Auraria , Lumpkin County , Georgia , † October 26, 1910 in Atlanta , Georgia) was an American politician and governor of Georgia.

Early years and political advancement

Allen grew up with 11 siblings on a farm in Lumpkin County. There he attended elementary school. He then studied law at Mercer University in Macon . After graduating in 1859, he became a teacher in Banks County . When the civil war broke out , he joined the Confederate Army . He took part in various battles and was wounded several times. Among other things, he lost an eye. By the end of the war he had made it to the Colonel .

After the war, he settled in Jonesboro and took a few odd jobs . He soon began to be interested in politics, joined the Democratic Party and campaigned for the end of the Reconstruction . His career began in 1872 when he was elected Mayor of Gainesville . Between 1873 and 1877 he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and then the State Senate . From 1883 to 1891 he was a member of the United States House of Representatives . In 1894 he succeeded Philip Cook as Secretary of State in Georgia. In 1898 he successfully ran for governor of Georgia.

Georgia Governor

Candler, who remained in office for two terms, was a more conservative governor. He advocated pension payments to Confederate war widows. Otherwise, state benefits were only granted to the poor. He was a supporter of racial segregation and advocated that the Democratic Party should only be open to white members. Otherwise he did little to curb violence against African Americans, such as lynching, election fraud or other ill-treatment.

According to him, Candler County named in Georgia.

Old age and death

After leaving the office of governor in 1902, he dealt with the processing of the history of Georgia. He organized and archived historical documents from all epochs since the colonial era. In the end, his archive included 21 volumes from the colonial era, three from the period of the War of Independence and five from the time of the Confederation. In 1906 he edited a three-volume work on the history of Georgia with Clement Evans. He died of kidney failure on October 26, 1910.

Candler had been married to Eugena Thomas Williams since 1864, with whom he had eleven children. His cousin Milton A. Candler also sat for Georgia in the US House of Representatives, and another cousin, Ezekiel S. Candler , was for the state of Mississippi .

literature

  • Allen D. Candler: Col. William Candler of Georgia. His Ancestry and Progeny. Foote and Davies, Atlanta GA 1896.
  • James F. Cook: The Governors of Georgia, 1754-2004. 3rd edition, revised and expanded. Mercer University Press, Macon GA 2005, ISBN 0-86554-954-0 .

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