Tim Lee Carter

A Representative from Kentucky. Born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Ky. , September 2, 1910. Attended the public schools, graduated from Western Kentucky State College in 1934 and from the University of Tennessee in 1937. Studied medicine. Volunteered for military service during the Second World War and served forty-two months as a combat medic as captain in the Thirty-eighth Infantry Division. Practicing physician in Tompkinsville, Ky. , 1940-1964. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-ninth and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1981). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1980 to the Ninety-seventh Congress. Was a resident of Tompkinsville, Ky. Until his death in Glasgow, Ky. On March 27, 1987. Interment in Evans-Oak Hill Cemetery, Tompkinsville.