 His son Charles Murphey Candler became a lawyer and serve in both houses of the Georgia legislature, starting in 1886, and also served on the state Railroad Commission (1909-1922).His younger brother John S. Candler became a Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1902-1906) (as did a more distant relative Thomas S. Candler from 1945-1966).His cousin Allen D. Candler, also a Confederate officer but from Lumpkin County, Georgia, was elected Georgia's governor in 1898.