A. S. J. Carnahan
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| United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone | |
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In office May 11, 1961 – July 13, 1963 |
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| Preceded by | Herbert Reiner (Interim Chargé d'Affaires) |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Vincent Corry |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1961 |
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| Preceded by | Parke M. Banta |
| Succeeded by | Richard Howard Ichord Jr. |
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In office January 3, 1945 – January 3, 1947 |
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| Preceded by | William P. Elmer |
| Succeeded by | Parke M. Banta |
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Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan January 9, 1897 Near Ellsinore, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | March 24, 1968 (aged 71) Rochester, Minnesota |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Kathel Schupp (1895-1981) |
| Relations | Robert E. Carnahan (Son) Melvin E. Carnahan (Son) Jean Carnahan (Daughter-in-law) Russ Carnahan (Grandson) Robin Carnahan (Granddaughter) |
| Alma mater |
Missouri State Teachers College University of Missouri |
| Religion | Baptist |
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan (January 9, 1897 – March 24, 1968) was a United States politician from Southeast Missouri. He began his career as a teacher and school administrator. He then served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for southeastern Missouri for 14 years, becoming the first member of the prominent Carnahan Family to serve in public office.
Albert Carnahan was born on a farm near Ellsinore, Missouri, the youngest of 10 children and named after the Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston. He attended Crommertown school, a one-room schoolhouse in Carter County. In 1914, at the age of 17, Carnahan began a career as an educator. He taught at Crommertown, Hogan Hollow and Ellsinore, Missouri. For a year during World War I, he served in an aviation unit of the Navy at a station in Ireland. Upon returning home, he completed his high school education at the College High School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1926 from the Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau, now called Southeast Missouri State University. Carnahan taught in southeastern Missouri for several years before enrolling at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, from which earned his master's degree in 1932. For the next several years, Carnahan was a high school administrator serving Carter, Reynolds, and Shannon counties, rising to the post of superintendent of schools in Ellsinore. Mr. Carnahan married Kathel Schupp, with whom he raised two sons, Robert E. and Melvin E.
In 1944, Carnahan was elected to represent Missouri's 8th Congressional District in the House of Representatives as a Democrat. He served only one term before being defeated in 1946, but ran again in 1948 and won. Carnahan served in the House for another six consecutive terms, but failed to win the Democratic Party's nomination for his own seat in 1960. As a Member of Congress, Mr. Carnahan served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, beginning with his first term, and at the time of his retirement was the ranking member of that Committee. For several years, he served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and the Subcommittee on Africa. He helped write such major legislation as the GI Bill, the Marshall Plan, the Area Development Act, and a revision of the Social Security statutes, was a delegate to the 12th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1957, and served as Congressional Advisor to the U. S. Delegation to the Second International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva in 1958. In 1961, Carnahan was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the first United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone. He retired from this post in 1963.
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