Educator. He served as the Assistant editor of the Christian Advocate in Nashville, Tennessee from 1886-1888. He was President of Emory College from 1888 to 1898. In 1914, he became the first Chancellor of Emory University, and he continued in that capacity until 1920, where he fought for traditional values, forbidding such activities as dramatics clubs & intercollegiate athletics (while encouraging intermural sports), established law, medical and theology schools and university hospital. He was elected Bishop in Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1898, Senior Bishop in 1922. He was the younger brother of and spiritual advisory to Asa G. Candler, the founder of the Coca-Cola company and a primary financier of the new Emory University in Atlanta. Schooled at Villa Rica, in west Georgia, Candler entered Emory College at the tender age of fifteen and graduated two years later. All of five feet six inches tall, Candler packed a lot of intellectual and persuasive power into his short, round frame, and he knew it. He once said that five feet six inches "is a favorite height in history. . . . Napoleon Bonaparte was just five feet, six inches tall. John Wesley was just five feet, six inches tall. Modesty forbids my saying there were other people five feet, six inches tall." One classmate in fact recounted that Candler was memorable not only for his brilliance as a student but also for his physique. "He was not angular as most youths of fifteen. On the contrary, he was about the roundest boy who had been seen at Emory in many a year." Apparently, his students referred to him as "Shorty" and perhaps in a less flattering manner, "King Shorty." He was also one of the best debaters, joining both of the literary societies and winning the championship debate at his Commencement on the question, "Ought the Right of Suffrage To Be Restricted to Man?" He argued yes, as he would do for the rest of his life. Notwithstanding those wishes, his wife secretly registered to vote once the right became available. He had a quick wit. The story is told by Alfred M. Pierce, Candler's biographer, that one afternoon when the faculty had not yet shown up for daily chapel well past the appointed hour, the students began to cry "Cut, cut" to assert their freedom to leave. At last, however, the faculty appeared, led by Candler. Still the noise of the students persisted, as they tried to cajole an hour's freedom. Candler would have none of it and took the lectern: "Since I was late, you are entitled to an explanation. I was searching for a certain text of Scripture. 'Kish said to Saul, Go seek the asses.' "Lo," said Candler, "I have found them." Bishop Candler's funeral was conducted in the Old Church at his request. He was my great-great grandfather.