Representative George H. Carr View All Years

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George H. Carr

Polk County

GEORGE H. CARR was born at Whitehill, New York, November 23, 1852, and died at his home in Des Moines, Iowa, December 5, 1918. In 1855 he was brought by the family to Illinois where they settled on a farm. He attended common school, worked on the farm, attended academy, taught school, attended Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, and was graduated from the Law Department of the State University of Iowa in 1877. He commenced the practice of law at Emmetsburg, Iowa, and became a member of the firm of Soper, Crawford & Carr. He served as a judge of the district court of the Fourteenth Judicial District from 1887 to 1894, having no opposition for his second term. He resigned from the bench and formed a partnership with A. C. Parker of Spencer, and removed to Des Moines in 1895. The firm soon obtained an extensive practice. In 1897 he was elected representative from Polk County and was re-elected two years later, serving in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth general assemblies. From 1908 until his death he was solicitor for Iowa of the Chicago & Great Western Railroad Company.

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