Chester O. Carrier
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Chester Otto Carrier (May 5, 1897 - September 24, 1980) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Born on a farm near Brownsville, Edmonson, Kentucky, Carrier attended the public schools of Grayson County, Kentucky, the University of West Virginia at Morgantown, and was graduated from the law department of the University of Louisville at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1924. He engaged in ranching in Wyoming for one year. Took up railroading in Pennsylvania in 1920. He was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced practice in Leitchfield, Kentucky. County attorney of Grayson County from 1925 to 1943.
Carrier was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward W. Creal and served from November 30, 1943, to January 3, 1945. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Leitchfield. He retired to North Seminole, Florida, where he died September 24, 1980. He was interred in Clarkson Baptist Cemetery, Clarkson, Kentucky.
