Thomas Henry Carter was a delegate, a United States Representative, and a U.S. Senator from Montana

Montana

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Early life

Carter was born near Portsmouth, Ohio

Portsmouth, Ohio

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, and later his family moved to Pana, Illinois

Pana, Illinois

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. Carter attended the common schools in Illinois. He engaged in farming, school teaching, and railroading; at the same time studied law and was admitted to the bar

Bar association

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. In 1882, he moved from Burlington, Iowa

Burlington, Iowa

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, to Helena, Montana

Helena, Montana

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. In Montana he was elected as a Republican

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 Delegate to the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 4, 1889, to November 7, 1889, when the Territory was admitted as a State into the Union; elected as its first Representative and served from November 8, 1889, to March 3, 1891.

Career in Government

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Fifty-first Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1890 for reelection; Commissioner of the General Land Office 1891-1892, when he was elected chairman of the Republican National Committee

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He was elected as a Republican

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 to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1895, until March 3, 1901. As a Senator he was chairman of the Committee on Relations with Canada (Fifty-fourth Congress), the Committee on the Census (Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth Congresses). President William McKinley

William McKinley

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 appointed him a member of the board of commissioners of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition

Louisiana Purchase Exposition

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 and served as its president; again elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1905, to March 3, 1911. He was not a candidate for reelection. He died in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, September 17, 1911. Carter County, Montana

Carter County, Montana

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,360 people, 543 households, and 382 families residing in the county. The population density was -Demographics:...

is named in his honor.