Candidate
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
<A person who offers himself, or is presented bv others, to be elected to an ofiice. Derived from the Latin candidus, (white,) because in Rome it was the custom for those who sought oifice to elothe themselves in white garments, One who seeks or aspires to some office or privilege, or who offers himself for the same. A man is a candidite tor an office when he is seeking such office. It is not necessary that he should have been nominated for the office.
112 Pa. St. 624, 4 Atl. Rep. 607,