John F. Carew

John Francis Carew (April 16, 1873 - April 10, 1951) was a U.S. Representative from New York, nephew of Thomas Francis Magner.

Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, Carew attended the public schools of Brooklyn and New York City and the College of the City of New York. He graduated from Columbia College in 1893 and from Columbia Law School in New York City in 1896. He was admitted to the bar in 1897 and thereafter practiced law in New York City. Carew served as a member of the New York State Assembly in 1904, as a delegate to the Democratic State Conventions held from 1912 to 1924, and as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912 and 1924.

Carew was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1913, until resigned on December 28, 1929, having been appointed a justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He was subsequently elected to a fourteen-year term on that court in November 1930, and served until December 31, 1943, when he retired due to New York's constitutional age limitation for judges. Thereafter, he served as an official referee for the court. Carew is best remembered as the judge who presided over the trial for custody of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1934.

Carew died in Rockville Centre, New York, on April 10, 1951, and was interred in Calvary Cemetery, Queens, New York.

References

• John F. Carew at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress