Steven V. Carter

Steven V. Carter

Steven V. Carter (born October 8, 1915 in Carterville , Utah County , Utah , † November 4, 1959 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between January and November 1959 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

At the age of 14, Steven Carter came to Lamoni , Decatur County , Iowa with his parents . There he attended public schools, including Graceland College , from which he graduated in 1934. He then studied at the University of Iowa until 1937 . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1939, he began to work in his new profession in Leon . From 1940 to 1943 he was a district attorney in Decatur County. During the Second World War , Carter was an officer in the US Navy from 1943 to 1946 , where he was responsible for supplies and material procurement. He was deployed in the Pacific.

After the war he was the legal representative of the city of Leon from 1946 to 1948. Politically, Carter was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1948, 1950 and 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for the Congress . In 1958 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Iowa . There he took over from Karl M. Le Compte on January 3, 1959 , against whom he had lost in his previous candidacies and who had not stood in 1958. Steven Carter was unable to end his legislative term, which actually ran until January 3, 1961. After a previous cancer recurrence, he died on November 4, 1959 at Bethesda Naval Hospital . After a by-election, his seat fell to the Republican John Henry Kyl .

Web links

• Steven V. Carter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Steven V. Carter in the database of Find a Grave (English)