Office: | Oklahoma Secretary of State |
Term Start: | January 1943 |
Term End: | 1945 |
Predecessor: | Charles C. Childers |
Successor: | Katherine Manton |
Term Start2: | January 1935 |
Term End2: | January 1939 |
Predecessor2: | Richard A. Sneed |
Successor2: | Charles C. Childers |
Office3: | Oklahoma State Auditor |
Term Start3: | January 1939 |
Term End3: | January 1943 |
Predecessor3: | Charles C. Childers |
Successor3: | Charles C. Childers |
Term Start5: | January 1931 |
Term End5: | January 1935 |
Predecessor5: | A. S. J. Shaw |
Successor5: | Charles C. Childers |
Term Start6: | January 1919 |
Term End6: | January 1923 |
Predecessor6: | Everette B. Howard |
Successor6: | Charles C. Childers |
Office7: | Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner |
Term Start7: | January 1923 |
Term End7: | January 1927 |
Predecessor7: | Campbell Russell |
Successor7: | E. R. Hughes |
Birth Date: | 1862 |
Death Date: | 1954 |
Party: | Democratic Party |
Frank Carter was an American politician who was elected Oklahoma State Auditor in 1918, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner in 1922, State Auditor in 1930, Oklahoma Secretary of State in 1934, State Auditor in 1938, and Secretary of State in 1942.
Frank C. Carter was born in Texas in 1862. He graduated from Eastman Business College in New York and returned to Texas to work for a lumber company. He settled in Frederick in 1901 after the opening of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation. After Oklahoma statehood, he served as sheriff of Tillman County from 1907 to 1913. He was elected Oklahoma State Auditor in 1918, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner in 1922, State Auditor in 1930, Oklahoma Secretary of State in 1934, State Auditor in 1938, and Secretary of State in 1942. He died in 1954.[1]