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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriAlbert Sidney Johnson CARNAHAN
(1897-1968)
CARNAHAN, Albert Sidney
Johnson, (father-in-law of Jean Carnahan, grandfather of
Russ Carnahan), a Representative from Missouri; born near
Ellsinore, Carter County, Mo., January 9, 1897; attended public
schools in Ellsinore and Cape Girardeau, Mo.; graduated from the
State Teachers College, Cape Girardeau, Mo., 1926; graduated from
the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1934; United States
Navy, 1918-1919; teacher; high school administrator; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-ninth Congress (January 3, 1945-January 3,
1947); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eightieth
Congress in 1946; superintendent of schools at Ellsinore, Mo.;
elected to the Eighty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1949-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1960; United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone,
1961-1963; died on March 24, 1968, in Rochester, Minn.; interment
in Carson Hill Cemetery, Ellsinore, Mo.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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