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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Frank Carlson
|image=Frank Carlson of KS.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Kansas]]
|term_start=November 29, 1950
|term_end=January 3, 1969
|predeceded=Harry Darby
|succeeded=[[Bob Dole]]
|office2=30th [[Governor]] of Kansas
|term_start2=January 13, 1947
|term_end2=November 28, 1950
|preceded2=Andrew Frank Schoeppel
|succeeded2=Frank Leslie Hagaman<br> (interim for Edward Ferdinand Arn)
|office3=Chairman of the [[National Governors Association]]
|term_start3=June 19, 1949
|term_end3=June 18, 1950
|predeceded3=William Preston Lane, Jr. ([[Maryland]])
|succeeded3=[[Frank Lausche]] ([[Ohio]])
|office4=[[United States Representative]]<br> for Kansas' 6th congressional district, since disbanded
|term_start4=January 3, 1935
|term_end4=January 3, 1947
|preceded4=Katherine O'Loughlin McCarthy
|succeeded4=Wint Smith
|office5=Kansas State Representative
|term_start5=1929
|term_end5=1933
|birth_date=January 23, 1893
|birth_place=Cloud County, Kansas
|death_date=May 30, 1987 (aged 94)
|death_place=Concordia, Cloud County
|resting_place=Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Concordia
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Alice Fredrickson Carlson<br>
(Married 1919-1986, her death)<br>
|children=No children
'''Parents''':<br>
Charles Eric and Anna Johannesson Carlson
|alma_mater=Cloud County Community College<br>[[Kansas State University]]
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1918–1919
|rank=Private
|battles=[[World War I]]
}}
'''Frank Carlson''' (January 23, 1893 – May 30, 1987) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] who served as the 30th [[governor]] of [[Kansas]] from 1947 to 1950 and a United States Senator from 1950 to 1969. He also served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1929 to 1933 and the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1935 to 1950. He is the only Kansan to have held all four of these offices. He was also his state party chairman from 1933 to 1935. His political career began with the election of [[U.S. President]] [[Herbert Hoover]] in November 1928 and ended shortly before the inauguration of [[Richard M. Nixon]] in January 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/frank-carlson/12002|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate July 5, 2021}}</ref>
Carlson was born near Concordia, the county seat of Cloud County located in north central Kansas. He was the son of [[Sweden|Swedish]] immigrants Charles Eric Carlson (1862-1931) and the former Anna Johannesson (1866-1948).<ref name=findagrave/> He attended public schools and what later became [[Kansas State University]] in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a private in the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]].<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=Frank Carlson (1893-1987) - Find A Grave Memorial|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
After the war, Carlson returned to Concordia to farm. He soon was elected state representative and in 1935 moved up to the United States House for the since disbanded Kansas 6th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=c000154
|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=Biographic Directory of the U. S. Congress|access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
Governor Carlson is remembered for his emphasis on mental health programs and highway construction. In 1949, Kansas state Senator Clyde Martin Reed (1871-1949) died, and Carlson appointed Harry Darby (1895-1987) to fill the seat. Darby continued his service in the Senate until Carlson himself was elected to fill the seat in 1950. Instead of waiting until January to be sworn in, he took his seat on November 28, 1950, and left the governorship to Frank Leslie Hagaman (1894-1966) who served less than two months.<ref name=findagrave/>
In 1952, Carlson campaigned for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and then brokered a deal to make Eisenhower's intraparty opponent, U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]], as the Senate Majority Leader. According to [[Billy Graham]]'s autobiography, ''Just As I Am,'' Carlson was instrumental in the establishment of the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, an annual assembly of all three branches of government still in operation.<ref>[[Billy Graham]], ''Just As I Am'' ([[New York City]]:HarperCollins, 1997),'' p. 202.</ref> Carlson was also a member of the board of directors of World Vision.<ref>"Carlson's Role in Viet Aid Agency, ''Fort Scott (Kansas) Tribune,'' June 28, 1967.</ref>
A [[Moderate Republican]] who had earlier opposed [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]], Carlson was in the forefront for the passage of civil rights acts<ref name=carlsonpapers>Frank Carlson papers : Collection 92 - State Archives - Kansas Historical Society (kshs.org), accessed July 5, 2021.</ref> in 1957, 1964, and 1968, as well as the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], and the 1967 confirmation of the [[liberal]] [[Thurgood Marshall]], the first [[African American]] appointed to the United States Supreme Court]]. He also backed ratification of the [[24th Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which halted poll taxes for voters.
The public library in Concordia, Kansas, is named for him and contains an exhibit on his political life. The federal building and court house in the capital city of [[Topeka]] is also named in Carlson's honor. His Senate successor [[Bob Dole]] said that Carlson "wrote the book on class."<ref name=carlsonpapers/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Kansas]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War I]]
|name=Frank Carlson
|image=Frank Carlson of KS.jpg
|office=[[United States Senator]] for [[Kansas]]
|term_start=November 29, 1950
|term_end=January 3, 1969
|predeceded=Harry Darby
|succeeded=[[Bob Dole]]
|office2=30th [[Governor]] of Kansas
|term_start2=January 13, 1947
|term_end2=November 28, 1950
|preceded2=Andrew Frank Schoeppel
|succeeded2=Frank Leslie Hagaman<br> (interim for Edward Ferdinand Arn)
|office3=Chairman of the [[National Governors Association]]
|term_start3=June 19, 1949
|term_end3=June 18, 1950
|predeceded3=William Preston Lane, Jr. ([[Maryland]])
|succeeded3=[[Frank Lausche]] ([[Ohio]])
|office4=[[United States Representative]]<br> for Kansas' 6th congressional district, since disbanded
|term_start4=January 3, 1935
|term_end4=January 3, 1947
|preceded4=Katherine O'Loughlin McCarthy
|succeeded4=Wint Smith
|office5=Kansas State Representative
|term_start5=1929
|term_end5=1933
|birth_date=January 23, 1893
|birth_place=Cloud County, Kansas
|death_date=May 30, 1987 (aged 94)
|death_place=Concordia, Cloud County
|resting_place=Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Concordia
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Alice Fredrickson Carlson<br>
(Married 1919-1986, her death)<br>
|children=No children
'''Parents''':<br>
Charles Eric and Anna Johannesson Carlson
|alma_mater=Cloud County Community College<br>[[Kansas State University]]
|branch=[[United States Army]]
|serviceyears=1918–1919
|rank=Private
|battles=[[World War I]]
}}
'''Frank Carlson''' (January 23, 1893 – May 30, 1987) was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[politician]] who served as the 30th [[governor]] of [[Kansas]] from 1947 to 1950 and a United States Senator from 1950 to 1969. He also served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1929 to 1933 and the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1935 to 1950. He is the only Kansan to have held all four of these offices. He was also his state party chairman from 1933 to 1935. His political career began with the election of [[U.S. President]] [[Herbert Hoover]] in November 1928 and ended shortly before the inauguration of [[Richard M. Nixon]] in January 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/frank-carlson/12002|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=Kansas Historical Society |accessdate July 5, 2021}}</ref>
Carlson was born near Concordia, the county seat of Cloud County located in north central Kansas. He was the son of [[Sweden|Swedish]] immigrants Charles Eric Carlson (1862-1931) and the former Anna Johannesson (1866-1948).<ref name=findagrave/> He attended public schools and what later became [[Kansas State University]] in Manhattan, Kansas. He was a private in the [[United States Army]] in [[World War II]].<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=Frank Carlson (1893-1987) - Find A Grave Memorial|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
After the war, Carlson returned to Concordia to farm. He soon was elected state representative and in 1935 moved up to the United States House for the since disbanded Kansas 6th congressional district.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=c000154
|title=Frank Carlson|publisher=Biographic Directory of the U. S. Congress|access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
Governor Carlson is remembered for his emphasis on mental health programs and highway construction. In 1949, Kansas state Senator Clyde Martin Reed (1871-1949) died, and Carlson appointed Harry Darby (1895-1987) to fill the seat. Darby continued his service in the Senate until Carlson himself was elected to fill the seat in 1950. Instead of waiting until January to be sworn in, he took his seat on November 28, 1950, and left the governorship to Frank Leslie Hagaman (1894-1966) who served less than two months.<ref name=findagrave/>
In 1952, Carlson campaigned for [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], and then brokered a deal to make Eisenhower's intraparty opponent, U.S. Senator [[Robert A. Taft]] of [[Ohio]], as the Senate Majority Leader. According to [[Billy Graham]]'s autobiography, ''Just As I Am,'' Carlson was instrumental in the establishment of the Presidential Prayer Breakfast, an annual assembly of all three branches of government still in operation.<ref>[[Billy Graham]], ''Just As I Am'' ([[New York City]]:HarperCollins, 1997),'' p. 202.</ref> Carlson was also a member of the board of directors of World Vision.<ref>"Carlson's Role in Viet Aid Agency, ''Fort Scott (Kansas) Tribune,'' June 28, 1967.</ref>
A [[Moderate Republican]] who had earlier opposed [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]], Carlson was in the forefront for the passage of civil rights acts<ref name=carlsonpapers>Frank Carlson papers : Collection 92 - State Archives - Kansas Historical Society (kshs.org), accessed July 5, 2021.</ref> in 1957, 1964, and 1968, as well as the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]], and the 1967 confirmation of the [[liberal]] [[Thurgood Marshall]], the first [[African American]] appointed to the United States Supreme Court]]. He also backed ratification of the [[24th Amendment]] to the [[United States Constitution]], which halted poll taxes for voters.
The public library in Concordia, Kansas, is named for him and contains an exhibit on his political life. The federal building and court house in the capital city of [[Topeka]] is also named in Carlson's honor. His Senate successor [[Bob Dole]] said that Carlson "wrote the book on class."<ref name=carlsonpapers/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Carlson, Frank}}
[[Category:Kansas]]
[[Category:Former United States Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Moderate Republicans]]
[[Category:Farmers]]
[[Category:United States Army]]
[[Category:World War I]]