Lincoln L. McCandless

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix =

|name = Lincoln Loy McCandless

|image = Lincoln Loy McCandless (vol. 2, 1921).jpg

|imagesize = 140px

|alt = Gentleman in suit with bow tie

|office=Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii Territory's at-large district

|term_start = March 4, 1933

|term_end = January 3, 1935

|predecessor = Victor S. K. Houston

|successor = Samuel Wilder King

|birth_date = {{birth date|1859|9|18}}

|birth_place = Indiana, Pennsylvania

|death_date = {{death date and age|1940|10|5|1859|9|18}}

|death_place = Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii

|party = Republican
Democratic

}}

Lincoln Loy McCandless (September 18, 1859 – October 5, 1940) was a United States cattle rancher, industrialist and politician for the Territory of Hawaii. McCandless served in the United States Congress as a territorial delegate. A former member of the Hawaii Republican Party, McCandless was one of the earliest leaders of the Hawaii Democratic Party.

Life

Born September 18, 1859, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, his mother was Eliza Ann Newman and father Thomas McCartney McCandless.

McCandless grew up in Volcano, West Virginia. McCandless moved to Hawaii in 1882 to employ his expertise in oil drilling and mining to construct artesian wells. He joined his older 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.{{cite web |title= Glossary M–S |work= Hawaiian Encyclopedia |url= http://www.hawaiianencyclopedia.com/part-2-glossary-m-s.asp |accessdate= November 4, 2010}}

On May 24, 1904, he married Elizabeth Janet Cartwright of New York.{{cite book |title= Men of Hawaii: being a biographical reference library, complete and authentic, of the men of note and substantial achievement in the Hawaiian Islands |publisher= Honolulu Star-Bulletin |year=1921 |editor=John William Siddall |page= [https://archive.org/details/menhawaiibeinga01siddgoog/page/n290 277] |url= https://archive.org/details/menhawaiibeinga01siddgoog }}

McCandless entered political life as a member of the Republic of Hawaii House of Representatives from the 5th district from 1898 to 1900.{{cite web|url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH01f2/acc557b7.dir/McCandless,%20Lincoln%20L.jpg |title=McCandless, Lincoln L. office record |work=state archives digital collections |publisher=state of Hawaii |accessdate=November 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403160301/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/index/assoc/HASH01f2/acc557b7.dir/McCandless%2C%20Lincoln%20L.jpg |archivedate=April 3, 2012 }}

After the United States annexed the islands to form the Territory of Hawaii, McCandless was elected to the territorial legislature as a senator from 1902 to 1906. He started his career in the Hawaii Republican Party. But by 1906, he started to challenge the long-serving Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole.{{cite news |title=Body Blow from Kuhio: How Translating Graft was Knocked out |newspaper= Hawaiian Gazette |location= Honolulu, Hawaii |page=1 |date=April 6, 1906 |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1906-04-06/ed-1/seq-1/ |accessdate= November 4, 2010 }}

By 1908 McCandless switched to join the Hawaii Democratic Party to oppose Kūhiō as non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives for Hawaii Territory's at-large congressional district,{{cite book|editor-last=Kowalewski|editor-first=Albin J.|title=Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Congress 1900–2017

|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc226/pdf/GPO-CDOC-108hdoc226.pdf}}{{cite news |title= Demagogy Run Mad |newspaper= Hawaiian Gazette |location= Honolulu, Hawaii |page=4 |date=October 13, 1908 |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1908-10-13/ed-1/seq-4/ |accessdate= November 4, 2010 }}

He was also nominated in 1910,{{cite news |title= Territorial Ticket |newspaper= The Democrat |location= Honolulu, Hawaii |page=2 |date=November 5, 1910 |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016408/1910-11-05/ed-1/seq-2/ |accessdate= November 4, 2010 }} and in 1912,{{cite news |title= Link Throws and Hogties Democratic Convention |newspaper= Hawaiian Gazette |location= Honolulu, Hawaii |page=1 |date= April 16, 1912 |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83025121/1912-04-16/ed-1/seq-1/ |accessdate= November 4, 2010 }} losing all those elections, but Democrat William Paul Jarrett 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.{{CongBio|M000307|inline=1}} Losing a bid for reelection, McCandless directed the construction of roads, buildings, and a sewer system for Honolulu. He died in Honolulu, on October 5, 1940, and was cremated and interred in Oahu Cemetery in the Nu{{okina}}uanu Valley.