Henderson Haverfield Carson (October 25, 1893 - October 5, 1971) was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

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Born on a farm near Cadiz, Ohio

Cadiz, Ohio

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, Carson attended the public and high schools.
Cleveland (Ohio) Law School and Baldwin-Wallace College at Berea, Ohio

Berea, Ohio

- History :The first European settlers were originally from Connecticut. Berea fell within Connecticut's Western Reserve and was surveyed and divided into townships and ranges by one Gideon Granger, a gentleman who served as Postmaster General under President Thomas Jefferson...

, LL.B., 1919.
He became affiliated with the legal department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. in 1915.
Enlisted in the Field Artillery in 1918.
He was transferred to Base Hospital, One Hundred and Nineteenth Unit, Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky, and served there until honorably discharged in 1919 as a corporal.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1919 and commenced practice in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.The City of Caton is the largest incorporated area within the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, in 1922.
He served as member of the faculty of McKinley Law School 1926-1942, where he received his J.D. degree.

Carson was elected as a Republican

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 to the Seventy-eighth

78th United States Congress

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 Congress (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1945).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth

79th United States Congress

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Carson was elected to the Eightieth

80th United States Congress

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 Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first

81st United States Congress

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 Congress.
He resumed the practice of law in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

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, and Washington, D.C.

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Resided in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately south of Akron and south of Cleveland.The City of Caton is the largest incorporated area within the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, where he died October 5, 1971.
He was interred in West Lawn Cemetery

West Lawn Cemetery

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