Carter Manasco (January 3, 1902 – February 5, 1992) was a

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from

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. Born in

Townley, Alabama Townley is an unincorporated community in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It was formerly an incorporated town from 1895 until the 1920s. Townley has one site on the National Register of Historic Places, Boshell's Mill. Demographics Townl ...

, Manasco attended the public schools and

Howard College Howard College is a community college in the U.S. state of Texas with its main campus in Big Spring and branch campuses in San Angelo and Lamesa. History Howard County Junior College was established in Big Spring in 1945. 148 students be ...

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

. He graduated from the

University of Alabama School of Law The University of Alabama School of Law, (formerly known as the Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. School of Law at The University of Alabama) located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a nationally ranked top-tier law school and the only public law school in the st ...

, LL.B., 1927 and J.D. 1929. He was

admitted to the bar An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are dist ...

the same year and began practice in

Jasper, Alabama Jasper is a city in and the county seat of Walker County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 14,352 as of the 2010 census. Named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper, an American Revolutionary War hero, Jasper was settled around 1815 and ...

. He served as member of the

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from 1930 to 1934. He served as secretary to Speaker William B. Bankhead, 1933-1940. Manasco was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

Walter W. Bankhead Walter Will Bankhead (July 21, 1897 – November 24, 1988) was a U.S. Representative from Alabama. Early life Walter Will Bankhead was born on July 21, 1897 in Jasper, Alabama. Bankhead attended the public schools. He was the son of John Hol ...

. He was reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses and served from June 24, 1941, to January 3, 1949. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments (Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses). During the early part of the

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, he railed against the measures of agencies like the

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: He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948. He resumed the practice of law and engaged in

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work. He served as member of the first

Hoover Commission The Hoover Commission, officially named the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, was a body appointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 to recommend administrative changes in the Federal Government of the Uni ...

on Reorganization of the Executive Departments from 1947 to 1949. He was legislative counsel, National Coal Association from 1949 to 1985. He was a resident of

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, until his death in

Arlington, Virginia Arlington County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is situated in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of the Potomac River directly across from the District of Columbia, of which it was once a part. The county i ...

, on February 5, 1992.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manasco, Carter 1902 births 1992 deaths People from Walker County, Alabama Samford University alumni University of Alabama alumni Alabama lawyers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians

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