Carnahan, A. S. J., (Albert Sidney Johnson), 1897-1968.

Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan was born near Ellsinore in Carter County, Missouri, on January 9, 1897. He graduated from State Teachers College at Cape Girardeau (Mo.) in 1926 and from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1934.

During the First World War he served in the Navy. He taught school and served as an administrator from 1920-1944, until he was elected as a Democrat to the seventy-ninth Congress (1945-1946).

After an unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1946, he was elected to the eighty-first Congress and the five succeeding Congresses (1949-1960). He was appointed Ambassador to Sierra Leone in 1961, where he served until his retirement in 1963. He died March 24, 1968.