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American politician (1878?1937)
Robert Davis Carey
(August 12, 1878 – January 17, 1937) was an American politician from
Wyoming
, a state of which he served as
Governor
and represented in the
United States Senate
. He was the first native-born Wyomingite to serve in either position. He was a member of the
Republican Party
.
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Robert Carey was born on August 12, 1878, to
Joseph Maull Carey
and Louisa David in
Cheyenne
in the
Wyoming Territory
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He attended and received an education from the public schools and Hill School in
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
. Carey attended college and graduated from
Yale University
in 1900, after which he moved to
Converse County, Wyoming
. Once back in Wyoming, Carey entered the
livestock
and
agricultural
businesses and took an interest in
banking
. He served as a member of the
Progressive National Committee
for Wyoming from 1912 to 1916 and chairman of the Wyoming State Highway Commission from 1917 to 1918. Carey also served as president of the Wyoming Stock Grower's Association between 1917 and 1921.
In 1918, Carey was elected the
11th Governor of Wyoming
, serving from 1919 to 1923. He was Wyoming's first governor to be born in the state. He was appointed by
President
Calvin Coolidge
in 1924 to evaluate agriculture in the United States as chairman of the agricultural conference.
Carey was elected to represent Wyoming as a Republican in the United States Senate on November 4, 1930, to fill a vacancy created by the death of
Francis E. Warren
and was also elected in his own right to the term commencing in March 1931. He assumed office on December 1, 1930, and served until the expiration of his term on January 3, 1937. He unsuccessfully sought reelection in 1936.
Upon the expiration of his term in the United States Senate, Carey returned to Wyoming to reenter the agricultural business. He died on January 17, 1937, two weeks after he left office, in Cheyenne.
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He was interred in Lakeview Cemetery.
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from the
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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