Lincoln Loy McCandless (September 18, 1859 – October 5, 1940) was a

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cattle rancher, industrialist and politician for the

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. McCandless served in the

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as a territorial delegate. A former member of the

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, McCandless was one of the earliest leaders of the

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Life

Born September 18, 1859, in

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, his mother was Eliza Ann Newman and father Thomas McCartney McCandless. McCandless grew up in Volcano,

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. McCandless moved to Hawaii in 1882 to employ his expertise in oil drilling and mining to construct artesian wells. He joined his younger brothers James S. McCandless (born 1855) who had arrived in 1880, and John A. McCandless (born 1853) who had arrived in 1881, forming the McCandless Brothers family firm. On May 24, 1904, he married Elizabeth Janet Cartwright of New York. McCandless entered political life as a member of the Republic of Hawaii

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from the 5th district from 1898 to 1900. After the

annexed the islands to form the

, McCandless was elected to the territorial legislature as a senator from 1902 to 1906. He started his career in the

. But by 1906, he started to challenge the long-serving Prince

Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole Jonah or Jonas, ''Yōnā'', "dove"; gr, Ἰωνᾶς ''Iōnâs''; ar, يونس ' or '; Latin: ''Ionas'' son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th cent ...

. By 1908 McCandless switched to join the

to oppose Kūhiō as non-voting delegate to the

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for

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, He was also nominated in 1910, and in 1912, losing all those elections, but Democrat

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was nominated and won the elections in 1922 and 1924. McCandless was nominated and won the election on November 8, 1932, and served one term from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1935. Losing a bid for reelection, McCandless directed the construction of roads, buildings, and a sewer system for

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. He died in Honolulu, on October 5, 1940, and was cremated and interred in

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in the Nuuanu Valley.

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