Biography

11/27/1886 - 05/16/1977

Jacob Walter Carr (R41) Armstrong and Butler Counties 1941-1948

Early Life:

Jacob Walter Carr Born November 27, 1886, Natrona Heights, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; son of David and Mary Walter Carr; Tarentum High School, editor school publication, football, Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1905; agent, Pennsylvania Railroad; elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 1941-1948; married, Lila Harrison Carr; died, May 16, 1977, interment, Greenlawn Burial Estates, Butler, Butler County, Pennsylvania.  

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), Order of the Knights of Pythagoras, Free and Accepted Masons, Princes of Jerusalem, Scottish Rite, committeeman, Order Railroad Telegraphers; president, Butler Rotary Club; president, Butler Motor Club; lay preacher, Methodist Church.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 41st district, Armstrong and Butler Counties, 1941-1948; committee assignments, Constitutional Changes (Chairman) Agriculture, Elections, Federal Relations, Insurance, Labor and Industry, Law and Order, Public Health, Representative Apportionment, Workmans Compensation.  

Legacy:

Inscription

Too Well Loved To Be Forgotten

Cited:

The Pennsylvania Manual (1943). Focht, B. (Editor). (Vol. 86). Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 610, 614, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 595.

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