Henderson H. Carson
American politician (1893-1971)
Henderson Haverfield Carson (October 25, 1893 – October 5, 1971) was a U.S. representative from Ohio for two non-consecutive terms in the 1940s.
Biography
Born on a farm near Cadiz, Ohio, Carson attended the public and high schools.
Cleveland (Ohio) Law School and Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea, 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 in Canton, Ohio, 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 to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945).
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