Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Edmund Nelson CARPENTER
Edmund Nelson Carpenter (June 27, 1865–November 4, 1952) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
Edmund N. Carpenter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. He was interested in mining and the manufacture of sheet-metal products. He enlisted as a private in 1893 and attained the rank of major in the Pennsylvania National Guard. During the Spanish-American War, Carpenter served as first lieutenant and quartermaster in the Ninth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, from 1898 to 1898. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1918.
Carpenter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926. He resumed his manufacturing interests, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Interment in Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre.
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