Vincent Michael Carter[a] (November 6, 1891 – December 30, 1972) was a United States representative from Wyoming.
Carter was born in St. Clair, Pennsylvania on November 6, 1891, a son of William Joseph Carter and Julia Ann (Clarke) Carter.[1][2] He moved with his parents to Pottsville in 1893.[3] He attended public schools, the United States Naval Academy Preparatory School, and Fordham University.[3]
During World War I he served in the United States Marine Corps as a first lieutenant assigned to the 8th Marine Regiment.[3] After the war, he helped organize the Wyoming Army National Guard's Troop A, 58th Machine Gun Squadron, which he commanded with the rank of captain from 1919 to 1921.[1][4]
Carter was admitted to the bar in 1919, and commenced practice in Casper, Wyoming.[3] He moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming in 1929 and continued the practice of law, serving as deputy attorney general of Wyoming from 1919 to 1923.[1] In 1922, Carter was elected Wyoming State Auditor, and he was re-elected in 1926.[1]
In 1928, Carter was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the two succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate.[3] In 1930, Carter received his LL.B. degree from He graduated in 1915 from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C.[5] After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Cheyenne, retiring in 1965; he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1936 and 1940.[3]
Carter retired in 1965.[6] He died in Albuquerque, New Mexico on December 30, 1972.[6] He was buried at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Albuquerque.[6]
In 1921, Carter married Helen K. Carlson.[7] She died in 1926, and in 1929 he married Mary Catherine Crowley.[2]