Carlson, Frank

Carlson, Frank, a Representative from Kansas; born in Concordia, Cloud County, Kans., January 23, 1893; attended the public schools, Concordia (Kans.) Normal and Business College, and Kansas State College at Manhattan; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Army from October 21, 1918, to March 31, 1919; engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; member of the State house of representatives 1929-1933; chairman of the Republican State committee 1932-1934; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; elected Governor of Kansas in 1946, and again in 1948 for the term expiring January 1951; chairman of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission in 1949; elected chairman of the Governors’ Conference at Colorado Springs in June 1949; is a resident of Concordia, Kans.