- Henderson H. Carson
Henderson Haverfield Carson (
October 25 ,1893 -October 5 ,1971 ) was a U.S. Representative fromOhio .Born on a farm near
Cadiz, Ohio , Carson attended the public and high schools. Cleveland (Ohio) Law School and Baldwin-Wallace College atBerea, Ohio , LL.B., 1919.He became affiliated with the legal department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in 1915. Enlisted in the Field Artillery in 1918.He was transferred to Base Hospital, One Hundred and Nineteenth Unit,Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky , and served there until honorably discharged in 1919 as a corporal.He was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice inCanton, Ohio , in 1922.He served as member of the faculty of McKinley Law School 1926-1942, where he received his J.D. degree.Carson was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (
January 3 ,1943 -January 3 ,1945 ).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress.Carson was elected to the Eightieth Congress (
January 3 ,1947 -January 3 ,1949 ).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.He resumed the practice of law inCanton, Ohio , andWashington, D.C. . Resided inCanton, Ohio , where he diedOctober 5 ,1971 .He was interred in West Lawn Cemetery.References
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