Frank Ertel Carlyle

Frank Ertel Carlyle (April 7, 1897 – October 2, 1960) was an American lawyer and World War I veteran who served four terms as a United States representative of the Democratic Party from the state of North Carolina from 1949 to 1957.

Career Carlyle graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After serving in the US Navy during World War I he practiced law in Lumberton, North Carolina and served as the solicitor of the 9th judicial district of North Carolina.

Congress In 1948, Carlyle was elected to the 81st United States Congress. He would serve three more terms before losing re-election in 1956. He was a signatory to the 1956 Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education.