| Vincent Carter | |
| State: | Wyoming |
| District: | At-large |
| Term Start: | March 4, 1929 |
| Term End: | January 3, 1935 |
| Preceded: | Charles E. Winter |
| Succeeded: | Paul R. Greever |
| Office2: | 14th Wyoming State Auditor |
| Term Start2: | 1923 |
| Term End2: | 1929 |
| Governor2: | William B. Ross Frank E. Lucas Nellie Tayloe Ross Frank C. Emerson |
| Preceded2: | Ishmael C. Jefferis |
| Succeeded2: | Roscoe Alcorn |
| Birth Date: | 6 November 1891 |
| Birth Place: | St. Clair, Pennsylvania, US |
| Death Place: | Albuquerque, New Mexico, US |
| Party: | Republican |
| Spouse: | Helen K. Carlson (m. 1921) Mary Catherine Crowley (m. 1929) |
| Children: | 4 |
| Occupation: | Attorney |
| Alma Mater: | Fordham University Columbus School of Law |
| Allegiance: | United States Wyoming |
| Branch: | Marine Corps Wyoming Army National Guard |
| Serviceyears: | 1917–1919 (Marine Corps) 1919–1921 (National Guard) |
| Rank: | First Lieutenant (Marine Corps) Captain (National Guard) |
| Battles: | World War I |
| Unit: | 8th Marine Regiment (Marine Corps) |
| Commands: | Troop A, 58th Machine Gun Squadron (National Guard) |
Vincent Michael Carter (November 6, 1891 – December 30, 1972) was a United States representative from Wyoming.
Carter was born in St. Clair, Pennsylvania on November 6, 1891, a son of William Joseph Carter and Julia Ann (Clarke) Carter.[1] [2] He moved with his parents to Pottsville in 1893.[3] He attended public schools, the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School, and Fordham University.[3]
During World War I he served in the United States Marine Corps as a first lieutenant assigned to the 8th Marine Regiment.[3] After the war, he helped organize the Wyoming Army National Guard's Troop A, 58th Machine Gun Squadron, which he commanded with the rank of captain from 1919 to 1921.[1] [4]
Carter was admitted to the bar in 1919, and commenced practice in Casper, Wyoming.[3] He moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1929 and continued the practice of law, serving as deputy attorney general of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923.[1] In 1922, Carter was elected Wyoming State Auditor, and he was re-elected in 1926.[1]
In 1928, Carter was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1929 to January 3, 1935; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.[3] In 1930, Carter received his LL.B. degree from He graduated in 1915 from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C.[5] After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Cheyenne, retiring in 1965; he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1936 and 1940.[3]
Carter retired in 1965.[6] He died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on December 30, 1972.[6] He was buried at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Albuquerque.[6]
In 1921, Carter married Helen K. Carlson.[7] She died in 1926, and in 1929 he married Mary Catherine Crowley.[2]
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