Dear Jack,
I have some of these in the CE CD 2001 but not all. Does anyone have any
ancestry on the ones I am missing?
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
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From: "Jack A Schoedinger" <j.schoedinger(a)juno.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 4:15 PM
Subject: [CARPENTER] Some more names from the past
Biographical Directory of the American Congress,
1774-1949
Pages 950-951
RIN 22395 IN THE CE
CD 2001
Carpenter, Cyrus Clay, a Representative from Iowa; born near
Harford,
Susquehanna County, Pa., November 24, 1829; attended the common schools,
and was graduated from Harford Academy in 1853; moved to Iowa in 1854 and
engaged in teaching and afterwards in land surveying; studied law but
never practiced; county surveyor of Webster County in 1856; member of the
State house of representatives 1858-1860; during the Civil War was
appointed captain of Volunteers March 24, 1862; lieutenant colonel from
September 26, 1864, to July 14, 1865; brevetted colonel of Volunteers
"for efficient and meritorious services" July 12, 1865; mustered out July
14, 1865; register of the State land office 1866-1868; Governor of Iowa
1872-1876; Second Comptroller of the Treasury from January 1876 to
September 1877; appointed railroad commissioner of Iowa March 26, 1878;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses
(March 4, 1879-March 3, 1883); was not a candidate for renomination;
again served in the State house of representatives 1884-1886; postmaster
of Fort Dodge 1889-1893; engaged in the management of his farm and in the
real-estate business; died in Fort Dodge, Iowa, May 29, 1898; interment
in Oakland Cemetery.
RIN 48050 IN THE CE CD 2001
Carpenter, Davis, a Representative from New York; born in Walpole,
Cheshire County, N.H., December 25, 1799; studied medicine; was graduated
from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1824; studied law; was admitted to the
bar and commenced practice in Brockport, N.Y.; elected as a Whig to the
Thirty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Azariah Boody and served from November 8, 1853, to March 3, 1855;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth
Congress; engaged in the practice of medicine in Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y., and died there October 22, 1878; interment in High Street
Cemetery.
NOT FOUND IN THE CE CD 2001 - DOES ANYONE KNOW HIS ANCESTRY?
Carpenter, Edmund Nelson, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born
in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 27, 1865; attended the public schools in
Wilkes-Barre and the Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.; interested in
mining and the manufacture of sheet-metal products; enlisted as a private
in 1893 and attained the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National
Guard; during the Spanish-American War served as first lieutenant and
quartermaster in the Ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry,
from April 27, 1898, to October 29, 1898; chairman of the Wyoming Valley
Chapter of the American Red Cross during the First World War;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress;
elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925-March
3, 1927); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth
Congress; resumed his former business activities and resides in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
NOT FOUND IN THE CE CD 2001 - DOES ANYONE KNOW HIS ANCESTRY?
Carpener, Levi D, a Representative from New York; born in
Waterville,
Oneida County, N.Y., August 21, 1802; attended the public schools;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Waterville, N.Y.; supervisor of the town of Sangerfield in 1835; elected
as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy .caused
by the resignation of Samuel Beardsley and served from November 5, 1844,
to March 3, 1845; was not a candidate for reelection in 1844; resumed the
practice of law in Waterville, N.Y., and died there October 27, 1856;
interment in the City Cemetery.
RIN 17770 IN THE CE CD 2001
Carpenter, Lewis Cass, a Representative from South Carolina; born in
Putnam, Conn., February 20, 1836; attended the public schools; moved to
New Jersey, where he taught school; appointed State inspector of public
schools in New Jersey in 1863; at an early age began writing for the
press, and was connected with the New York papers for several years; went
to Washington, D.C., in 1864 and was employed in the Treasury Department;
studied law at Columbian (now George Washington) University; was admitted
to the bar and practiced; Washington newspaper correspondent; moved to
Charleston, S.C., in 1867 and became editor of the Charleston Courier;
assisted in establishing the Charleston Republican in 1868; secretary to
United States Senator William H. Buckingham, of Connecticut, 1868-1873;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Robert B. Elliott and served from November
3, 1874, to March 3, 1875; unsuccessful candidate for election to the
Forty-fifth Congress; moved to Denver, Colo., in 1878, and thence, in
1879, to Leadville, where he edited a newspaper; appointed supervisor of
the census for Colorado in 1880; appointed United States post-office
inspector in 1881 and resigned in 1883; engaged in the insurance business
1883-1890; resumed the practice of law; died in Denver, Colo., March 6,
1908; interment in Fairmount Cemetery.
RIN 12462 IN THE CE CD 2001
Carpenter, Matthew Hale, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Moretown,
Washington County, Vt., December 22, 1824; attended the common schools;
entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1843 and
remained two years; studied law in the office of Rufus Choate; was
admitted to the bar in 1847 and practiced in Boston, Mass.; moved to
Beloit, Wis., in 1848; district attorney of Rock County 1850-1854; moved
to Milwaukee in 1858; until the commencement of the Civil War belonged to
the Douglas wing of the Democratic [p.951] Party; represented the
Government in the celebrated McCardle case, and brought to trial the
validity of the reconstruction act of March 7, 1867, for the government
of the States then in rebellion, and won the case in the Supreme Court;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; elected President pro tempore of the Senate
March 12, 1873, March 26, 1873, December 11, 1873, and December 22, 1874;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1875; resumed the practice of
law in Washington and in Milwaukee; again elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, until his death in
Washington, D.C., February 24, 1881; interment in Forest Home Cemetery,
Milwaukee, Wis.
NOT FOUND IN THE CE CD 2001 - DOES ANYONE KNOW HIS ANCESTRY?
Carpenter Terry McGovern, a Representative from Nebraska; born in
Cedar
Rapids, Linn County, Iowa, March 28, 1900; attended the public schools of
Cedar Rapids; moved to Scottsbluff, Nebr., in 1916 and was employed in
various positions with a railroad company; was engaged in the wholesale
candy and tobacco business in 1922 and 1923; moved to Long Beach, Calif.,
in 1923 and was employed as manager of the municipal gas and water
department; returned to Scottsbluff, Nebr., in 1927 and engaged in the
garage business until 1930, when he became owner of a gasoline filling
station; also in the retail coal business; unsuccessful candidate for
mayor in 1931; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third Congress (March
4, 1933-January 3, 1935); was not a candidate for renomination in 1934,
but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the United
States Senate; resumed his former business activities and is a resident
of Scottsbluff, Nebr.
NOT FOUND IN THE CE CD 2001 - DOES ANYONE KNOW HIS ANCESTRY?
Carpenter, William Randolph, a Representative from Kansas; born in
Marion, Marion County, Kans., April 24, 1894; attended public and high
schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1917; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Marion, Kans.; also interested in agricultural
pursuits; organized Company M, Third Regiment Infantry, Kansas National
Guard, serving as second lieutenant; during the First World War was
transferred to Company M, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry,
Thirty-fifth Division, was promoted to first lieutenant during the
Argonne offensive, and served from August 5, 1917, until his discharge on
May 8, 1919; member of the Marion Board of Education 1925-1933; served in
the State house of representatives 1929-1933; elected as a Democrat to
the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1933-January 3,
1937); was not a candidate for renomination in 1936; resumed the practice
of law; appointed acting United States attorney for the district of
Kansas on February 21, 1945, and as United States attorney for the same
district on April 7, 1945; is a resident of Marion, Kans.
Jack