Carpenter, William Randolph, 1894-1956.

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Birth 1894
Death 1956

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William Randolph Carpenter was born in Marion, Kansas April 24, 1894. He attended Kansas public schools and graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor law school in 1917. He was admitted to the Kansas bar in 1917. Carpenter served in the First World War and returned to Kansas. He served as a member of the Marion Board of Education and served in the State House of Representatives from 1929-1933.

Carpenter was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses (1933-1937). He returned to the practice of law in Kansas and later served as United States Attorney for the District of Kansas from 1945-1948. Carpenter died in Topeka, Kansas, July 26, 1956.

From the description of The Congressional Papers of William Randolph Carpenter, 1929-1948. 1929-1948. (Wichita State University). WorldCat record id: 21126830

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