Isaac W. Carpenter, Jr.

Isaac White Carpenter Jr. (January 5, 1893 – May 6, 1983) His father, as company president, was one of 50 members elected in 1898 to the board of directors of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition world's fair.

Business career Circa 1940, Carpenter became the president of his family's paper company. Upon that sale, Carpenter retired.

Champion Paper and Fibre had formed from the 1935 merger of Champion Coated Paper Company of Ohio and Champion Fibre Company of North Carolina. The combined company would merge with the U.S. Plywood Corporation in 1967 and was renamed Champion International in 1972. It bought the St. Regis Corporation in 1984, and sold its Canton, North Carolina, plant to the employees in 1999, resulting in a separate company. Champion was ultimately acquired by International Paper in 2000.

Public service Carpenter was appointed as Assistant Secretary of State for Administration by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 16, 1954, and began duty a week later on June 23. His service continued in that role until January 26, 1955, when he assumed the new and equivalent rank of Comptroller, responsible for budgeting and fiscal affairs, operating the personnel program, and overseeing the provision of administrative services. Carpenter then took on a combined role as Assistant Secretary for Administration on August 11, 1955,

Personal life Carpenter Jr. married his first wife, Elizabeth Balch Reed, in 1918. She had been honored as queen of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben ball in 1917. Elizabeth, a granddaughter of real estate businessman and local politician Byron Reed, died in 1964, sometime after which Carpenter married Fredericka Clara Nash.