Steven V. Carter

Steven V. Carter ( born October 8, 1915 in Carterville, Utah County, Utah, † November 4, 1959 in Bethesda, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between January and November 1959, he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of 14 years, Steven Carter came with his parents to Lamoni in Decatur County, Iowa. There he attended the public schools, including the Graceland College, where he graduated in 1934. Then he studied until 1937 at the University of Iowa. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1939 admitted to the bar he began in Leon to work in his new profession. From 1940 to 1943 he was district attorney in Decatur County. During the Second World War from 1943 to 1946 Carter was an officer in the U.S. Navy, where he was responsible for supplies and materials procurement. He was employed in the Pacific.

After the war he was from 1946 to 1948 legal representative of the city of Leon. Politically, Carter was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1948, 1950 and 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. In 1958, he was then in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 3, 1959 in the footsteps of Karl M. Le Compte, against the lost in its previous nominations each, and the 1958 was no longer started. Steven Carter could not finish his current actually until January 3, 1961 legislative session. After an earlier cancer had recurred, he died on November 4, 1959 at Bethesda Naval Hospital. After a by-election be seat fell to Republican John Henry Kyl.