About John J. Carson
Lived 1888 – 1971 (aged 82–83). John J. Carson was a politician.
John J. Carson was a 20th-century American politician who served in the Truman Administration as a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from 1949 to 1953. A Republican who was nominated to one of the party's posts on the FTC, he nevertheless drew ire from his own party owing to his past association with a group of business cooperatives.
Background Carson was born in Smith Valley, Indiana, an unincorporated community south of Indianapolis, where he grew up.
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John J. Carson was born in 1888 in Smith Valley.
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John J. Carson died in 1971.
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John J. Carson was a politician.
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