Later Years
In 1976, Carswell was convicted of battery for advances he made to an undercover police officer in a Tallahassee men's room. In September 1979, Carswell was attacked and beaten by a man whom he had invited to his Atlanta, Georgia, hotel room in similar circumstances. Because of these incidents, Keith Stern, author of Queers in History, alleges Carswell to have been the first homosexual or bisexual nominated to the Supreme Court.
Carswell subsequently returned to his private law practice before he retirig. He died in 1992 of lung cancer; his wife, Virginia, died in 2009.
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