Thomas Henry Carter | |
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United States Senator from Montana |
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In office March 4, 1895 – March 4, 1901 March 4, 1905 – March 4, 1911 |
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Preceded by | Thomas C. Power Paris Gibson |
Succeeded by | William A. Clark Henry L. Myers |
Personal details | |
Born | October 30, 1854 Portsmouth, Ohio |
Died | September 17, 1911 Washington, D.C. |
(aged 56)
Political party | Republican |
Profession | Politician, Lawyer, Farmer, Teacher |
Thomas Henry Carter (October 30, 1854 – September 17, 1911) was a delegate, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator from Montana.
Carter was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, and later his family moved to Pana, Illinois. Carter attended the common schools in Illinois. He engaged in farming, school teaching, and railroading; at the same time studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1882, he moved from Burlington, Iowa, to Helena, Montana. In Montana he was elected as a Republican Delegate to the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to November 7, 1889, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union; elected as its first Representative and served from November 8, 1889, to March 3, 1891.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1890 for reelection; Commissioner of the General Land Office 1891-1892, when he was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee.
He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, until March 3, 1901. As a Senator he was chairman of the Committee on Relations with Canada (Fifty-fourth Congress), the Committee on the Census (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses). President William McKinley appointed him a member of the board of commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and served as its president; again elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1911. He was not a candidate for reelection. He died in Washington, D.C., September 17, 1911. Carter County, Montana is named in his honor.
United States House of Representatives | ||
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Preceded by Joseph K. Toole |
Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana Territory's At-large congressional district March 4, 1889 – November 7, 1889 |
Succeeded by Montana statehood |
Preceded by Montana statehood |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana's At-large congressional district November 8, 1889 – March 3, 1891 |
Succeeded by William W. Dixon |
United States Senate | ||
Preceded by Thomas C. Power |
United States Senator (Class 2) from Montana March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1901 Served alongside: Lee Mantle, William A. Clark |
Succeeded by William A. Clark |
Preceded by Paris Gibson |
United States Senator (Class 1) from Montana March 4, 1905 – March 3, 1911 Served alongside: William A. Clark, Joseph M. Dixon |
Succeeded by Henry L. Myers |
Party political offices | ||
Preceded by James S. Clarkson |
Chairman of the Republican National Committee 1892 – 1896 |
Succeeded by Mark Hanna |
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