Home › C › Carter, Thomas Henry

Carter, Thomas Henry

lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 30, 1854, in Scioto county, Ohio.

He was engaged in farming, railroading, and school teaching for number of years; studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he removed from Burlington, Iowa, to Helena, Mont.; and was elected delegate from the territory of Montana to the fifty-first congress as a republican, and upon the admission of the state was elected its first representative in congress. He was commissioner of the general land office from March, 1891, to July, 1892; and in January, 1895, was elected to the United States senate by the legislature of Montana for the term beginning in 1895 and ending in 1901. In July, 1892, he was elected chairman of the republican national committee.