Nathan T. Carr

Nathan Tracy Carr ( born December 25, 1833 in Corning, New York, † May 28, 1885 in Columbus, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between December 1876 and March 1877, he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathan Carr attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1851, the Starkey Academy. He then moved to the Midland County, Michigan. After studying law and its made ​​in 1858 admitted to the bar he began in Vassar to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1858 and 1860, Carr sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In the years 1861 and 1862 he was employed by the management of the Midland County. During the civil war in 1862, Carr was a lieutenant in a volunteer unit of infantry from Michigan.

In 1867 he moved to Columbus, Indiana. In 1870 he worked as a prosecutor for four districts of that State. In his new home, he continued his political career. After the death of Mr Michael C. Kerr, he was at the due election for the third seat of Indiana as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 5 December 1876. Since he was not nominated for the regular congressional elections of 1876 by ​​his party, he could only finish the current term in Congress until March 3, 1877.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Nathan Carr practiced as a lawyer again. In 1878 he became a judge in the ninth judicial district of Indiana. He died on 28 May 1885 in Columbus, where he was also buried.