George Washington Carroll

George Washington Carroll (April 11, 1855 – December 14, 1935) was an American politician and businessman. During the 1904 presidential election, he was given the vice presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party and ran alongside Silas C. Swallow.

Life

George Washington Carroll was born on April 11, 1855, to Francis Lafayette Carroll and Sarah Long in Mansfield, Louisiana. In 1868, his family moved to Beaumont, Texas where his father created the Long Shingle and Saw Mill and later moved to Waco, Texas in 1887. On November 20, 1877, he married Underhill Mixson, which was the first church wedding conducted in Beaumont, and later had three children with her.

On December 14, 1935, Carroll died from pneumonia in a YMCA building in Beaumont that he had helped to create in the 1920s.