Los Angeles County
Biographies
HENRY E. CARTER
A prominent
figure in the legal profession of Los Angeles is
Henry E. Carter, who has won wide recognition not only as an able counselor,
but as a most competent and judicious representative of the people in both the
assembly and the senate of California
during several terms. Mr. Carter was
born in Tuolumne County, California,
September 26, 1865 and is a son and youngest child of John Beach and Alice (Moore) Carter. The other children born to Mr. Carter’s
parents were as follows: May, now deceased, who was the wife of Columbus Baker,
and at the time of her death in 1927 had served as deputy county school
superintendent for twenty-five years; and Ettie, who is the widow of John
Waddell and is a resident of Los
Angeles. John Beach
Carter was a native of the state of Connecticut,
and by occupation he was a civil engineer; his wife was born in Ireland. He was one of the adventurous men who came
across the plains behind ox teams in 1849, to the mines and lure of gold. His point of departure was St. Joseph, Missouri. On his arrival here he surveyed the mining
ditches in Nevada
County and engaged
extensively in mining. He was a member
of the Pioneer Society of Tuolumne County, and his death occurred in the year
1893. Mrs. Carter herself came to California in 1851, but she took the dangerous route
across the Isthmus of Panama. She and Mr. Carter were married in California in 1853. Her demise occurred at the home of her son in
Southern California.
Henry E. Carter
attended both the public and the private schools during his youth, but his law
education was attained entirely through his own efforts by reading in various
offices, principally in the office of Anderson,
Fitzgerald & Anderson in Los
Angeles. He
came to this city to live in 1888 and in April, 1890, he was admitted to the
bar by the state supreme court. Later he
was admitted to the bar of the Federal courts.
He has engaged steadily in the practice of law since, and has built up a
large clientele. His professional career
has been characterized by high ethical procedure and he has won the respect of
both his clients and his brother lawyers.
For a number of years, he was in partnership with Isidore B. Dockweiler,
a native of Los Angeles and one of the city’s
most distinguished lawyers, and as a firm they occupied a foremost position at
the bar in southern California. Mr. Carter was deputy attorney-general of the
state under the Hon. W. F. Fitzgerald for a full term of four years which ended
in January, 1899. In November, 1900, he
was elected on the republican ticket to the state assembly from the
seventy-fifth district, which comprised one-third of the city of Los Angeles. He served with great credit to himself and
satisfaction to his constituents until 1905, in which year he became state
senator, having been elected in the preceding November. Since then he has been elected to the
assembly four times, his periods of service having been 1919-21, 1923-25, and
1927-28. In 1928 he was again elected to
the state senate, but retired in 1932, when the constitution reduced the
membership of Los Angeles
County from eight to one
member. As a legislator, he was earnest
and untiring in his efforts to protect the interests of the section he
represented, and the repeated success he enjoyed at the polls is unquestionable
evidence of this truth. Senator Carter
is a member of the American, the California
State and the Los Angeles County
bar associations. Fraternally, he is a
thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Al Malaikah Temple of the Mystic
Shrine, and also belongs to the Jinnistan Grotto. He holds membership in Ramona Parlor of the
Native Sons of the Golden West, of which he is past president; the Order of the
Eastern Star, the California Yacht Club, and the Wilmington Chamber of
Commerce. Mr. Carter’s office is
situated at 516 Fay building in Los Angeles,
while his residential address is 1040
Island Avenue in Wilmington, California.
In the year 1908,
Mr. Carter was married to Mrs. Alice (Hardenberg) Bridges, a native of Alameda County, California.
Transcribed by Bill Simpkins.
Source: California of the South
Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 109-111, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Bill Simpkins.
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