John A. Carroll

John Albert Carroll ( born July 30, 1901 in Denver, Colorado, † 31 August 1983 ibid ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Colorado in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

After attending the public schools in Denver John Carroll fought as a soldier in the U.S. Army in the final stages of the First World War. In 1929, he received his law degree from the Westminster Law School in Denver, after which he was admitted to the bar and began to practice in his hometown. From 1933 to 1934 he served as Deputy Attorney General, from 1937 to 1941 as a district attorney in Denver. Between 1942 and 1943 he held the post of a regional attorney for the Office of Price Administration, an agency of the federal government, held before he served as an officer in the U.S. Army until the end of World War II.

As a result, Carroll again worked as a lawyer and began a political career. On 3 January 1947 he moved as a representative of the 1st Congressional District of Colorado a House of Representatives of the United States, where he remained for a re-election until January 3, 1951. He opted not to run again in order to be elected instead in the U.S. Senate, but failed there as well as in a further experiment in 1954.

After a temporary work as a special advisor to President Harry S. Truman Carroll took a third attempt in 1956 to the Senate mandate and this time was successful. In 1962 he stood for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Peter H. Dominick and consequently had on January 3, 1963 from the Congress resign. After he retired from politics.