{{Short description|American politician (1828–1903)}} {{for|the English cricketer|John Candler (cricketer)}} {{More footnotes needed|date=May 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John W. Candler | birth_name = John Wilson Candler | image = John_Wilson_Candler_-_Standing.jpg | caption = Candler in 1895 | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1881 | term_end1 = March 3, 1883 | constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|8|C}} | predecessor1 = [[William Claflin]] | successor1 = [[William A. Russell (Massachusetts politician)|William A. Russell]] | term_start2 = March 4, 1889 | term_end2 = March 3, 1891 | constituency2 = {{ushr|MA|9|C}} | predecessor2 = [[Edward Burnett]] | successor2 = [[George F. Williams]] | order3 = Member of the <br>[[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term_start3 = 1866 | term_end3 = 1866 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1828|02|10}} | birth_place = [[Boston]], Massachusetts | death_date = {{Death date and age|1903|03|16|1828|02|10}} | death_place = [[Providence, Rhode Island]] | resting_place = [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''John Wilson Candler''' (February 10, 1828 – March 16, 1903) was an American merchant, businessman, and politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]] in the late 19th century.
== Biography == Candler was born in [[Boston]] on February 10, 1828. He attended the [[Marblehead Academy|Marblehead]] and [[Governor Dummer Academy|Dummer Academies]].
=== Early career === He then became a merchant, engaged in shipping and commerce with the [[East Indies|East]] and [[West Indies]] and South America. He served as a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]. 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.
=== Family === 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 [[Mormonism]] in 1832 and abandoned the family in 1843 to marry [[Brigham Young]] 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.
=== Congress === Candler was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] 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.
=== Later career and death === He returned to engage in mercantile pursuits until his retirement in 1893.
He died in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] on March 16, 1903. His interment was in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://newspapers.com/clip/120091302/mourned-by-many/ |title=Mourned By Many |newspaper=[[Boston Evening Transcript]] |page=1 |date=1903-03-19 |access-date=2023-03-03 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{CongBio|C000111}} *Toomey, Daniel P., ''Massachusetts of today Massachusetts Board of Managers, World's Fair'', page 105 (1893).
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