Allen D. Candler
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Allen Daniel Candler was a Georgia state legislator, U.S. representative and the 56th governor of Georgia.
Allen D. Candler
Governor Candler (just to left of center) with U.S. President William McKinley (to his right) reviewing the parade at the Atlanta Peace Jubilee, December 15, 1898.
Gainesville, Georgia
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Gainesville is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296. This city is the part of Metro Atlanta.
Allen D. Candler
…counted myself quite wealthy [with] … one wife, and baby, one eye, and one silver dollar." After the war, Candler settled in Jonesboro, Georgia, then Gainesville, Georgia. He turned to farming, then politics; he was one of many conservative Democrats pushing to wrest control of the state back from the Reconstruction…
Downtown Gainesville
View of Gainesville, 1931
Lake Lanier at River Forks Park
Smithgall Arts Center complex, including the Gladys Wyant Performing Arts Pavilion