Edward P. Carville

Infobox Senator
name = Edward P. Carville


jr/sr =United States Senator
state = Nevada
term_start = July 24, 1945
term_end = January 3, 1947
preceded = James G. Scrugham
succeeded = George W. Malone
order2=18^th
office2=Governor of Nevada
term_start2=January 2, 1939
term_end2=July 24, 1945
predecessor2=Richard Kirman, Sr.
successor2=Vail M. Pittman
lieutenant2=
date of birth=birth date|1885|5|14
place of birth=Elko County, Nevada
dead = dead
date of death=death date and age|1956|6|27|1885|5|14
place of death=Reno, Nevada
residence=
spouse=
profession=Attorney
religion=Roman Catholic
party=Democratic

Edward Peter Carville (May 14, 1885 - June 27, 1956) was a Governor and a Senator from Nevada. He was a Democrat.

Carville was born at Mound Valley in Elko County, Nevada in 1985. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana in 1909. He was a United States attorney for Nevada between 1934 and 1938. He became the Governor of Nevada in 1939 and served there until his resignation in 1945. He was appointed on July 24, 1945 to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James G. Scrugham and served from 1945 to 1947. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1946. He resumed the practice of law in Reno, Nevada until his death there in 1956.