Background
Carson was born in Winslow, Arizona. His father worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the family moved around reservations in Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Kansas. As a teenager, Carson moved back to Oklahoma, where his family had deep roots in the Cherokee Nation historical reservation.
Carson was a top student at Jenks High School and won a National Merit Scholarship to attend Baylor University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He became the first student at Baylor to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 75 years. As a Rhodes Scholar, Carson went to the University of Oxford and earned a second B.A.(which became an M.A. a few years later) in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. He attended the University of Oklahoma College of Law, graduating at the top of his class in 1994. According to the Almanac of American Politics, Carson had originally intended to attend Yale Law School, only to change his mind while at Oxford.
After graduation from the University of Oklahoma, Carson took a job at a prestigious Oklahoma law firm, Crowe & Dunlevy. In 1996, his firm was awarded the Exceptional Contribution to Legal Services Award by Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma.
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