Tim Lee Carter

Tim Lee Carter

Tim Lee Carter (born September 2, 1910 in Tompkinsville , Monroe County , Kentucky , †  March 27, 1987 in Glasgow , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1981 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tim Carter attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1934 the Western Kentucky State College . He then studied until 1937 at the University of Tennessee . After studying medicine, he was licensed as a doctor. During the Second World War he was used as a military doctor in an infantry unit. He then worked as a doctor in Tompkinsville until 1964.

Carter was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1964 congressional election , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Eugene Siler on January 3, 1965 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1981 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair fell . Carter had advocated a troop withdrawal from Vietnam early on. He was also one of the first Republican Congressmen to work on a nationwide health insurance plan. Carter was also a member of the so-called Shafer Commission , which dealt with drug problems.

In 1980, Carter renounced another candidacy. In the years that followed, up to his death, he was still politically active at the local level. He died in Glasgow on March 27, 1987 and was buried in Tompkinsville.

Web links

• Tim Lee Carter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tim Lee Carter in the database of Find a Grave (English)