Early Years
Carswell was born in Irwinton in Wilkinson County in central Georgia. He graduated in 1941 with a B.A. from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and briefly attended the University of Georgia School of Law before he enlisted in the United States Navy. He served as a lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and was discharged in 1945 at the end of World War II. Carswell completed his legal education in 1948 at the Walter F. George School of Law of Baptist-affiliated Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Griffin B. Bell, 72nd Attorney General of the United States under U.S. President Jimmy Carter, was one of Carswell's Mercer classmates.
He married his wife Virginia (née Simmons) in 1944.
In 1948, Carswell unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Georgia legislature. He then moved to Tallahassee, Florida, where he worked as a private attorney in from 1948 to 1953. Carswell served as the Eisenhower-appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida from 1953 to 1958.
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