- Vincent Carter
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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. portrayed byFrank Sutton "Vincent Michael Carter (November 6, 1891 - December 30, 1972) was aUnited States Representative fromWyoming . Born inSt. Clair, Pennsylvania , he moved with his parents to Pottsville in 1893. He attended public schools, theUnited States Naval Academy Preparatory School , andFordham University (inNew York City .) He was graduated from the law department ofCatholic University (inWashington, D.C. in 1915, and was admitted to the bar in 1919, commencing practice inCasper, Wyoming the same year. He moved toKemmerer, Wyoming in 1929 and continued the practice of law. DuringWorld War I he served in theUnited States Marine Corps as a lieutenant in the Eighth Regiment, Third Brigade, and was a captain in the State militia from 1919 to 1921. He was deputyattorney general of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923, and Stateauditor from 1923 to 1929.Carter was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1929 to January 3, 1935; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the
U.S. Senate . He resumed the practice of law in Cheyenne, retiring in 1965; he was a delegate to theRepublican National Convention s in 1936 and 1940. Carter died inAlbuquerque, New Mexico ; interment was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery.ee also
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