Gregory W. Carman

Gregory Wright Carman ( born January 31, 1937 in Farmingdale, New York) is an American lawyer and politician. Between 1981 and 1983 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gregory Wright Carman attended public schools. He was in the years 1956 and 1957 at the University of Paris, and the Institut d' études politiques de Paris. The following year he enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he held until his retirement in 1964 the rank of captain. During this time he graduated in 1958 from St. Lawrence University in Canton with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1961 at St. John's University School of Law in Jamaica with a Juris Doctor. After he graduated in 1962 from the University of Virginia Law School and JAG School. His admission to the bar he received in 1961; However, he began to practice in 1964 in Farmingdale. Between 1972 and 1980 he sat on the city council ( Town Board) of Oyster Bay.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1980 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jerome Ambro on January 4, 1981. Since he gave up for reelection in 1982, he retired after January 3, 1983, from Congress.

On January 31, 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated him as a judge on the United States Court of International Trade, to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Judge Scovel Richardson. His nomination was confirmed on 2 March 1983 by the U.S. Senate and he received the same day his appointment. He held the post of Chief Judge in 1991 and as acting officially between 1996 and 2003. Carman lives in Farmingdale.