D. Raymond Carter (August 13, 1905 - July 22, 1968) was an American Republican politician, lawyer, and teacher who has served in the

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in the

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from 1941 until 1944 and the

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from 1937 until 1940. Carter was educated at

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high school, Southwest Missouri State Teacher's College, and the

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. Carter married Ethel Frances Monville on June 20, 1933. He died in 1968 and was buried at Seymour Masonic Cemetery in

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. His wife later married Donovan Walker Owensby who also graduated from the University of Missouri School of Law; she died in the year 2002.

References

External links

D. Raymond Carter, Find a Grave

Ethel Francis Monville Owensby, Find a Grave

1905 births 1968 deaths Republican Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives Republican Party Missouri state senators 20th-century members of the Missouri General Assembly {{Missouri-MOSenate-stub