Ezra Child CARLETON, Congress, MI (1838-1911)

CARLETON, Ezra Child, a Representative from Michigan; born in St. Clair, St. Clair County, Mich., September 6, 1838; attended the common schools, and was graduated from the Port Huron High School in 1859; engaged in business as a hardware merchant in Port Huron, St. Clair County; mayor of Port Huron in 1881 and 1882; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); engaged in his former mercantile pursuits in Port Huron, until his death there July 24, 1911, interment in Lakeside Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present