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<br />ABOUT GOVERNOR CARR <br /> <br />Ralph L. Carr, two-term governor of Colorado, Republican, worked with and was a close observer of <br />Delph Carpenter's achievements. Governor Carr was born December 11, 1887, in Rosita, Colorado. <br />He graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905, earned his B.A. in 1910 and his LL.B. in 1912 <br />from the University of Colorado. He began practicing law at Victor, Colorado, in 1912 and was <br />manager of the Victor Daily Record. He also edited the Trinidad Picketwire and later practiced law <br />in Antonito, Trinidad, and Denver. He served as Conejos County Attorney from 1922 to 1929, <br />Assistant Attorney General of Colorado from 1927-1929, and U.S. District Attorney in Colorado from <br />1929 to 1933. He was legal adviser to the Colorado Interstate River Commission on the Rio Grande <br />Compact. He was elected Governor of Colorado in Nov. 1938 and re-elected in 1940. His close <br />association with Delph Carpenter and his family is evident in the moving oratory of his October 27, <br />1943, speech to the National Reclamation Association. <br /> <br />iii <br />