The Candlers of Georgia
- Samuel C. Candler (1809–1873), Georgia State Representative, Georgia State Senator, delegate to the Democratic National Convention 1860. Father of Asa Griggs Candler and John S. Candler.
- Asa Griggs Candler (1851–1929), Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia 1917-1919. Son of Samuel C. Candler.
- John Slaughter Candler (1861–1941), Georgia Superior Court Judge 1896-1902, Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court 1902-1906. Son of Samuel C. Candler.
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“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)