Henderson Haverfield Carson (October 25, 1893 – October 5, 1971) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Ohio
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for two non-consecutive terms in the 1940s.
Biography
Born on a farm near
Cadiz, Ohio
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, Carson attended the public and high schools.
Cleveland (Ohio) Law School and Baldwin-Wallace College at
Berea, Ohio
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, LL.B., 1919.
He became affiliated with the legal department of the
Pennsylvania Railroad
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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
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in 1919 and commenced practice in
Canton, Ohio
Canton () is a city in and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio. It is located approximately south of Cleveland and south of Akron in Northeast Ohio. The city lies on the edge of Ohio's extensive Amish country, particularly in Holmes and ...
, in 1922.
He served as member of the faculty of McKinley Law School 1926–1942, where he received his J.D. degree.
Congress
Carson was elected as a
Republican
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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.
Later career and death
He resumed the practice of law in
Canton, Ohio
Canton () is a city in and the county seat of Stark County, Ohio. It is located approximately south of Cleveland and south of Akron in Northeast Ohio. The city lies on the edge of Ohio's extensive Amish country, particularly in Holmes and ...
, and
Washington, D.C.
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Resided in
Canton, Ohio
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, where he died October 5, 1971.
He was interred in
West Lawn Cemetery
West Lawn Cemetery is in Canton, Ohio, adjacent to the McKinley National Memorial. It was the original resting place of William McKinley until his memorial was built, and has graves of other notable Cantonians.
History
Bezaleel Wells, Canton' ...
.
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Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
1893 births
1971 deaths
Baldwin Wallace University alumni
People from Cadiz, Ohio
Burials at West Lawn Cemetery
United States Army soldiers
Politicians from Canton, Ohio
Cleveland State University College of Law alumni
American military personnel of World War I
20th-century American politicians
Lawyers from Canton, Ohio
20th-century American lawyers