J. Ward Carver

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J. Ward Carver (born February 19, 1881 , in Calais , Vermont , † July 22, 1942 in Barre , Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician who was Vermont Attorney General from 1925 to 1931 .

Life

Jay Ward Carver was born in Calais, Vermont. He grew up in Marshfield and graduated from Montpelier High School. He then attended Goddard Seminary in 1900 .

Carver studied law while teaching at a school and was admitted to the bar in 1905. He opened a law firm in Barre. A member of the Vermont Republican Party , he was Barre Corporation Counsel , District Attorney for Washington County, and a member of the Vermont Senate .

Carver was appointed Vermont Attorney General in 1925 to fill that void after Frank C. Archibald stepped down. He was re-elected in 1926 and 1928, so his term in office lasted from 1926 to 1931.

In the 1930s Carver had a law firm together with Stanley C. Wilson , F. Ray Keyer the father of the future governor of Vermont F. Ray Keyser and Deane C. Davis . Your firm has been described as:

"Best ever collection of legal talent, in that it produced one Vermont Supreme Court Justice [Carver], two Governors [Wilson and Davis], and one state Attorney General [Carver]"

"The best collection of legal talents to date to produce a Vermont Supreme Court attorney [Carver], two Vermont governors [Wilsond and Davis], and a Vermont Attorney General."

Carver was President of the Vermont Bar Association from 1935 to 1936.

Carver died in Barre on July 22, 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Office of the Attorney General of Vermont ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 20, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ago.vermont.gov
  2. ^ Guy W. Bailey: Vermont Legislative Directory . Rand, Avery & Co., Boston, MA 1915, p. 578.
  3. ^ William Richard Cutter: New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial, Issue 4 . Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, NY 1914, p. 2043.
  4. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont . Capital City Press, Montpelier, VT 1917, p. 4.
  5. ↑ James M. Jeffords: Biennial Report of the Attorney General of the State of Vermont . Tuttle Company, North Clarendon, VT 1970, p. 6.
  6. ^ State of Vermont Attorneys General . Clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives.
  7. ↑ Obituary, F. Ray Keyser, Sr. . In: The Herald of Randolph (Randolph, VT) , March 15, 2001. 
  8. ^ Past Presidents of the Vermont Bar Association . Vermont Bar Association. 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Carver, J. Ward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carver, Jay Ward (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Calais , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1942
Place of death Barre , Vermont