Carroll Smalley Page was a United States Senator and the 43rd Governor of Vermont

Governor of Vermont

The Governor of Vermont is the governor of the U.S. state of Vermont. The governor is elected in even numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years; Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four...

. Born in Westfield, Vermont

Westfield, Vermont

Westfield is a town in Orleans County, Vermont in the United States. The population was 503 at the 2000 census. It is the least densely populated town in the county...

, he attended the common schools, People's Academy in Morrisville

Morrisville, Vermont

Morrisville is a village in Morristown, Lamoille County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 2,009. Morrisville has 2 country clubs, a hospital, a school featuring Greek architecture and an airport. The hospital and one of the country clubs are named after...

 and Lamoille Central Academy in Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Vermont

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. He was a dealer in raw calfskins at Hyde Park and was president and director of several banks and corporations. From 1869 to 1872 he was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives

Vermont House of Representatives

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; from 1874 to 1876 a member of the Vermont Senate

Vermont Senate

The Vermont Senate is the upper house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The Senate consists of 30 members. Senate districting divides the 30 members into three single-member districts, six two-member districts, three three-member districts, and one...

, and from 1880 to 1891 registrar of probate court. He was a savings bank

Savings bank

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 examiner from 1884 to 1888, and was Governor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892.

In 1908, Page was elected as a Republican

Republican Party (United States)

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 to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Redfield Proctor

Redfield Proctor

Redfield Proctor was a U.S. politician of the Republican Party. He served as the 37th Governor of Vermont from 1878 to 1880, as Secretary of War from 1889 to 1891, and as a United States Senator for Vermont from 1891 to 1908....

; he was reelected in 1910 and 1916 and served from October 21, 1908, to March 4, 1923. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1922. While in the Senate, Page was chairman of the Committee on Standards, Weights and Measures (Sixty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee on Cuban Relations (Sixty-second Congress), the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers (Sixty-third Congress), the Committee on Transportation and Sale of Meat Products (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses), and the Committee on Naval Affairs (Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh Congresses). He resided in Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Vermont

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until his death in 1925; interment was in Hyde Park Cemetery.