Ralph Lawrence Carr
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| Ralph Lawrence Carr | |
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1939 – 1943 |
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| Lieutenant Governor: | John C. Vivian |
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| Predecessor: | Teller Ammons |
| Successor: | John C. Vivian |
| Born: | December 11, 1887 Rosita, Colorado |
| Died: | September 22, 1950 Denver, Colorado |
| Political party: | Republican |
| Profession: | lawyer, newspaper editor |
| Spouse: | (1)Gretchen Fowler (2)Eleanor Farrall Howe |
Ralph Lawrence Carr (December 11, 1887 - September 22, 1950) was Governor of Colorado from 1939 to 1943. Born in Rosita in Custer County, he grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County and went to school there. A Republican, Carr was committed to fiscal restraint in state government and opposed the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. However, Carr supported Roosevelt's foreign policy. When the War Relocation Authority decided to resettle Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in a camp at Amache near Granada, Carr went against popular anti-Japanese sentiment by urging Coloradans to welcome the evacuees. In a speech defending the rights of the displaced Japanese-Americans, Carr said:
If you harm them, you must harm me. I was brought up in a small town where I knew the shame and dishonor of race hatred. I grew to despise it because it threatened the happiness of you and you and you.
Carr's urgings for racial tolerance and for protection of the basic rights of the Japanese-Americans are generally thought to have cost him his political career, including his ambition for election to the United States Senate. He narrowly lost the 1942 Senate election to incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson.
Carr is buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. In 1976, a bust of Carr was erected in Denver's Sakura Square to commemorate his efforts on behalf of Japanese-Americans.
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- Who Was Who in America, v. 3 (1951-1960), Chicago: Marquis - Who's Who, 1963, p.140.
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| Preceded by: Teller Ammons |
Governor of Colorado 1939-1943 |
Succeeded by: John Charles Vivian |
| Governors of Colorado |
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| Routt • Pitkin • Grant • Eaton • A. Adams • Cooper • Routt • Waite • McIntire • A. Adams • Thomas • Orman • Peabody • A. Adams • McDonald • Buchtel • Shafroth • E. Ammons • Carlson • Gunter • Shoup • Sweet • Morley • W. Adams • E. Johnson • Talbot • T. Ammons • Carr • Vivian • Knous • W. Johnson • Thornton • E. Johnson • McNichols • Love • Vanderhoof • Lamm • Romer • Owens |
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