Albert E. Carter

Albert E. Carter

Albert Edward Carter (born July 5, 1881 in Visalia , California , †  August 8, 1964 in Oakland , California) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1945 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Carter attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1903 the San José State Normal School . For the next six years he worked as a teacher. After studying law at the University of California at Berkeley and being admitted to the bar in 1913, he began practicing this profession in Oakland. During the First World War , between 1917 and 1919, he represented the commission appointed by the War Ministry to control the military training camps. In 1920 and 1921, Carter was the legal representative on the state pharmaceutical committee. From 1921 to 1925 he was the public procurement officer for the Oakland City Council. In 1923 he developed a plan to expand the port facilities in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay . Carter was also president of the Pacific Coast Association of Port Authorities .

Politically, he joined the Republican Party . In the 1924 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth constituency of California , where he succeeded James H. MacLafferty on March 4, 1925 . After nine re-elections, Carter was able to complete ten terms in Congress by January 3, 1945 . Since 1933 the New Deal laws of the federal government were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt ; from 1941 the work of the congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

In 1944 Albert Carter was not re-elected. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again. He had offices in California and in the federal capital Washington. He died in Oakland on August 8, 1964.

Web links

• Albert E. Carter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert E. Carter in the database of Find a Grave (English)