Member of Congress
Which position did A. S. J. Carnahan hold between Aug 1960 and Nov 1960?
A . S . J . Carnahan Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan ( January 9 , 1897 – March 24 , 1968 ) was an American diplomat and politician from Southeast Missouri . He began his career as a teacher and school administrator . He then served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for southeastern Missouri for 14 years , becoming the first member of the prominent Carnahan Family to serve in public office . Early life . Albert Carnahan was born on a farm near Ellsinore , Missouri , the youngest of 10 children and named after the Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston . He attended Crommertown school , a one-room schoolhouse in Carter County . In 1914 , at the age of 17 , Carnahan began a career as an educator . He taught at Crommertown , Hogan Hollow and Ellsinore , Missouri . For a year during World War I , he served in an aviation unit of the Navy at a station in Ireland . Upon returning home , he completed his high school education at the College High School in Cape Girardeau , Missouri . He earned a bachelors degree in education in 1926 from the Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau , now called Southeast Missouri State University . Carnahan taught in southeastern Missouri for several years before enrolling at the University of Missouri in Columbia , Missouri , from which earned his masters degree in 1932 . For the next several years , Carnahan was a high school administrator serving Carter , Reynolds , and Shannon counties , rising to the post of superintendent of schools in Ellsinore . Mr . Carnahan married Kathel Schupp , with whom he raised two sons , Robert E . and Melvin E . Political career . In 1944 , Carnahan was elected to represent Missouris 8th Congressional District in the House of Representatives as a Democrat . He served only one term before being defeated in 1946 , but ran again in 1948 and won . Carnahan served in the House for another six consecutive terms , but failed to win the Democratic Partys nomination for his own seat in 1960 . As a Member of Congress , Mr . Carnahan served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs , beginning with his first term , and at the time of his retirement was the ranking member of that Committee . For several years , he served as Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and Movements and the Subcommittee on Africa . He helped write such major legislation as the GI Bill , the Marshall Plan , the Area Development Act , and a revision of the Social Security statutes , was a delegate to the 12th General Assembly of the United Nations in 1957 , and served as Congressional Advisor to the U . S . Delegation to the Second International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in Geneva in 1958 . Carnahan did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto , and voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 . In 1961 , Carnahan was appointed by President John F . Kennedy as the first United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone . He retired from this post in 1963 . Later life . After retiring from the political life , Carnahan returned to Ellsinore , Missouri . He continued his interest in international service as a member of the Rotary Club of Poplar Bluff . He became Rotary District World Service Chairman , and inaugurated a program to aid in the education of children in Sierra Leone . Albert Carnahan died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , Minnesota on March 24 , 1968 . He was buried at Carson Hill Cemetery in Ellsinore . Legacy . A.S.J . Carnahan was the first of three generations of the family to be elected to public office . The Carnahans have become one of the best known and most enduring families in Missouri politics . He was the father of Mel Carnahan , who went on to become the Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000 . His daughter-in-law , Jean Carnahan , was appointed a United States Senator in 2001 following the death of her husband Mel , just before his election to that body . His grandson Russ Carnahan served in the U.S . House of Representatives from 2005 to 2013 , and his granddaughter Robin Carnahan was the Missouri Secretary of State from 2005 to 2013 . Carnahan Hall on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University , which houses the classes and offices of the Department of Political Science , was rededicated to him in 2004 . External sources . - Congressional biography - Legislative Profile