Early Life
Named for Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston (even though "Johnston" was misspelled for Carnahan), Carnahan was born near Ellsinore, Missouri, and attended public schools in Ellsinore and Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Carnahan entered the Navy in 1918, serving for two years before returning home. He attended the Missouri State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau, now Southeast Missouri State University where he has a building named in his honor which houses the school's Political Science department among others. Carnahan taught in southeastern Missouri for several years before enrolling at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1934. For the next several years, Carnahan was a high school administrator, rising to the post of superintendent of schools in Ellsinore.
Read more about this topic: A. S. J. Carnahan
Famous quotes containing the words early life, early and/or life:
“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase “early ripe, early rot!””
—David Elkind (20th century)
“The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of “public relations.” Without it, America would be grim indeed.”
—Anita Loos (1888–1981)