Timothy J. Carter

Timothy Jarvis Carter ( born August 18, 1800 in Bethel, Oxford County, Massachusetts, † March 14, 1838 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1837 and 1838 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Timothy Carter was born in 1800 in Bethel, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts and 1820 part of the then newly created state of Maine was. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent law school in Northampton and its made ​​in 1826 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Rumford. In 1827 he moved to Paris (Maine), where he also worked as a lawyer.

In 1833 he was employed in the management of the Senate of Maine. Between 1833 and 1837 Carter was district attorney. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1836 he was elected the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on September 4, 1837. But this he could only exercise until his death March 14, 1838. He was buried at the Congress cemetery in the capital Washington.