Terry Carpenter

Terry McGovern Carpenter ( born March 28, 1900 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, † April 27, 1978 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Terry Carpenter attended the public schools in Cedar Rapids. In 1916 he moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where he was employed in various positions at a railway company. In the years 1922 and 1923 he sold tobacco and sweets. In 1923 he moved to Long Beach in California. Where he led the gas and water supply of the city works. In 1927 he returned to Scottsbluff and operating an auto repair shop and a carbon trading. Between 1942 and 1945, Terry Carpenter was during the Second World War, Major in aircraft corps of the U.S. Army.

Carpenters political career was marked by a total of five party switch between the Democratic and Republican parties. In 1931 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Scottsbluff. In the congressional elections of 1932, he was elected as a Democrat in the fifth district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Ashton Shallenberger on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in the elections of 1934 on a bid again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935.

Carpenter is still applied in 1934 unsuccessfully within the Democratic Party for the nomination for the office of governor of Nebraska. In the following decades, he ran unsuccessfully for other political offices. 1936, 1942, 1948, 1954 and 1972, he sought unsuccessfully to each entry into the U.S. Senate. In most cases, he already missed the nomination of his respective party. Only in 1948 he was a candidate, but was defeated in the elections. In the years 1940, 1950 and 1960 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of governor of Nebraska, and in 1938 and 1974 failed both of his attempts to be elected at least for lieutenant governor. Between 1953 and 1974 he was a member of the Nebraska Legislature intermittently.