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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriFrank Melvin KARSTEN
(1913-1992)
KARSTEN, Frank Melvin, a
Representative from Missouri; born in San Antonio, Bexar County,
Tex., January 7, 1913; graduated from Beaumont High School, St.
Louis, Mo.; LL.B., National University (now George Washington
University), Washington, D.C., 1940; LL.D., Parsons College,
Fairfield, Iowa, 1969; lawyer, private practice; staff member for
United States Representative John J. Cochran, 1934-1946; delegate,
General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs, Geneva, Switzerland, 1957;
delegate, British-American Parliamentary Conference, 1964-1965;
elected as a Democrat to the Eightieth and to the ten succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1969); assistant Democratic
whip, 1947-1969; was not a candidate for reelection to the
Ninety-first Congress in 1968; died on May 14, 1992, in San
Antonio, Tex.; interment in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio,
Tex.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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