Randolph Carpenter

William Randolph Carpenter (born April 24, 1894 in Marion , Marion County , Kansas , †  July 26, 1956 in Topeka , Kansas) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Randolph Carpenter attended public schools in his home country and then studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor until 1917 . After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in Marion in his new profession. He also ran the family farm. During the First World War he was used as a soldier in an infantry regiment in France from the beginning of 1918 . He was involved in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and achieved the rank of first lieutenant. Carpenter remained in the military until his honorable discharge on May 8, 1919.

Carpenter became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1925 and 1933 he was a member of the school council of the city of Marion; from 1929 to 1933 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Kansas . In 1932 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of Kansas , where he succeeded Republican Homer Hoch on March 4, 1933 . His election victory was part of a nationwide trend in favor of the Democrats that culminated in the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as US President. After a re-election in 1934 Carpenter could complete two terms in the US Congress until January 3, 1937 . In 1936 he renounced another candidacy. During his tenure in the House of Representatives, many of the New Deal laws were discussed and passed in Congress.

After his tenure in Congress was over, Carpenter returned to practice as a lawyer. Between 1945 and 1948 he was a federal attorney for the Kansas County. In 1948 he ran unsuccessfully for governor of Kansas. Between 1950 and 1952 he was a member of the United States Motor Carrier Claims Commission . The politician married to Helen Frances Williams (1896-1994) died on July 26, 1956 in Topeka, the capital of Kansas, and was buried in Marion.

Web links

• Randolph Carpenter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Randolph Carpenter in the database of Find a Grave (English)