John Wilson Candler (February 10, 1828 – March 16, 1903) was a

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. He was born in

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on February 10, 1828. He attended the Marblehead and Dummer Academies. He then became a merchant, engaged in shipping and commerce with the

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. He served as a member of the

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. He was chairman of the commissioners of prisons of Massachusetts, and president of the Boston Board of Trade and of the Commercial Club of Boston. Candler married Lucy Almira Cobb on September 1, 1851 in Boston. Cobb was the daughter of Henry and Augusta Adams Cobb. Her mother Augusta, however, had converted to

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in 1832 and abandoned the family in 1843 to marry

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as his second polygamous wife. After bearing three daughters, Lucy Cobb Candler died in 1855 and John Wilson Candler then married Ida May Garrison of Manhattan in 1867, and they had one daughter. Candler was elected as a

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to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress, but was elected to the Fifty-first Congress (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891). He again was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress. He returned to engage in mercantile pursuits until his retirement in 1893. He died in

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on March 16, 1903. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in

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References

*Toomey, Daniel P.,
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', page 105 (1893). {{DEFAULTSORT:Candler, John W. Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1828 births 1903 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts 19th-century American politicians The Governor's Academy alumni