Frank Ertel CARLYLE, Congress, NC (1897-1960)

CARLYLE Frank Ertel , a Representative from North Carolina; born in Lumberton, Robeson County, N.C., April 7, 1897; educated in the schools of Robeson County, N.C., and Wilson Memorial Academy, Nyack, N.Y.; graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; during the First World War served in the United States Navy; licensed to practice law on January 31, 1921, and commenced practice in Lumberton, N.C.; elected solicitor of the ninth judicial district of North Carolina in 1938, 1942, and 1946, and served until elected to Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1957); unsuccessful for renomination in 1956; died in Lumberton, N.C., October 2, 1960; interment in Meadowbrook Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present