Political Career
In 1944, Carnahan was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat. He served only one term before being defeated in 1946, but ran again in 1948 and won. Carnahan served in the House for six consecutive terms, but failed to win the Democratic Party's nomination for his own seat in 1960. In 1961, Carnahan was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as the first United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone; he retired from this post in 1963. Carnahan died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 1968.
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