Vincent Carter

About

Vincent Michael Carter (November 6, 1891 – December 30, 1972) was a United States representative from Wyoming.

Carter was born in St. Clair, Pennsylvania on November 6, 1891, a son of William Joseph Carter and Julia Ann (Clarke) Carter. He moved with his parents to Pottsville in 1893. He attended public schools, the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School, and Fordham University.

During World War I he served in the United States Marine Corps as a first lieutenant assigned to the 8th Marine Regiment. After the war, he helped organize the Wyoming Army National Guard’s Troop A, 58th Machine Gun Squadron, which he commanded with the rank of captain from 1919 to 1921.

Carter was admitted to the bar in 1919, and commenced practice in Casper, Wyoming. He moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1929 and continued the practice of law, serving as deputy attorney general of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923. In 1922, Carter was elected Wyoming State Auditor, and he was re-elected in 1926.

In 1928, Carter was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1929, to January…