Edmund Nelson Carpenter (June 27, 1865 – November 4, 1952) was a Republican member of the

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. Edmund N. Carpenter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His parents were Benjamin Gardner Carpenter and Sarah Ann Feld and he was one of five children. He is a descendant of the immigrant William Carpenter (1605 England – 1658/1659 Rehoboth, Massachusetts) the founder of the

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who came to America in the mid-1630s.''Carpenters' Encyclopedia of Carpenters 2009'' (DVD format), Subject is RIN 14552; this work contains updates to the 1898 Carpenter Memorial by Amos B. Carpenter He attended the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He was interested in mining and the manufacture of sheet-metal products. He enlisted as a private in 1893 and attained the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard. During the

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, Carpenter served as first lieutenant and quartermaster in the Ninth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, from 1898 to 1898. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in

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. Carpenter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

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. He resumed his manufacturing interests, and died in

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. Interment in Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpenter, Edmund Nelson 1865 births 1952 deaths American military personnel of the Spanish–American War Politicians from Philadelphia Politicians from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania United States Army officers Quartermasters Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

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