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⚫ '''Frank S. Carden''' (February 6, 1882 - March 3, 1934) was an attorney and politician.<ref name=":0">''New York Times'' (March 4, 1934), p. 31.</ref>
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⚫ '''Frank S. Carden''' (February 6, 1882 – March 3, 1934) was an attorney and politician.<ref name=":0">''New York Times'' (March 4, 1934), p. 31.</ref>
He was born in Franklin, North Carolina; his father, W. C. Carden, was a Southern Methodist Minister. He attended ] and ].<ref name=":0" /> He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 1907 and 1909 legislative sessions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee 55th General Assembly |url=https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/55GA/55Members.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.capitol.tn.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee 56th General Assembly |url=https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/56GA/56Members.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.capitol.tn.gov}}</ref>


== Career ==
He was an active campaigner against Tennessee's ]. He was city attorney of Chattanooga from 1915 to 1922.<ref name=":0" />
Frank Stamper Carden was born in Franklin, North Carolina; his father, W. C. Carden, was a ] Minister,<ref name=":0" /><ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (March 5, 1934), p. 2.</ref> and his mother was Martha Stewart.<ref name=":2" /> His siblings included Leonard A. Carden and Robert A. Carden, who later were partners in Carden Brothers, an engineering firm;<ref>''Chattanooga Star'' (February 20, 1907), p. 3.</ref> and two sisters, Mary Carden and Mrs. Milton V. Griscomb.<ref name=":2" />


Frank Carden spent two years at ] in Virginia,<ref name=":1">''Chattanooga News'' (September 22, 1906), p. 8.</ref> and then went to ], graduating in 1901 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> He taught in eastern North Carolina, and then worked for an iron, coal and coke company in West Virginia, before obtaining a law degree from ].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> He was editor in chief of the ''Cumberland Weekly'', a student paper of the university, during the spring 1904 term.<ref>Students of Cumberland University (1904), p. 131.</ref>
He married Frances Campbell, and they had three children. He died in Chattanooga on March 3, 1934.<ref name=":0" />


Carden declared his candidacy for the ] in April 1906, for ],<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (April 7, 1906), p. 11.</ref> and won the nomination at the Democratic convention on September 15.<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (September 15, 1906), p. 8.</ref> At the general election in November he won 3,230 votes and was elected for the 1907 term.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily News'' (November 7, 1906), p. 9.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee 55th General Assembly |url=https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/55GA/55Members.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.capitol.tn.gov}}</ref> He chaired the municipal affairs committee during this term.<ref>''Knoxville Sentinel'' (March 21, 1907), p. 1.</ref> In February 1907, when the Pendleton bill (a temperance bill) came before the house, Carden spoke against it, saying that "the state is running mad over temperance and reform".<ref>''Knoxville Sentinel'' (February 5, 1907), p. 3.</ref>

In March 1907 he started a law firm, Vance & Carden, in Chattanooga, with a partner, D. B. Vance.<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (March 7, 1907), p. 9.</ref>

He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives again for the 1909 legislative session, this time with 4,579 votes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennessee 56th General Assembly |url=https://www.capitol.tn.gov/house/archives/56GA/56Members.html |access-date=2025-01-02 |website=www.capitol.tn.gov}}</ref><ref>''Chattanooga News'' (November 4, 1908), p. 12.</ref> In January 1909 he spoke against the prohibition bill being debated,<ref>''Daily Chattanooga'' (January 14, 1909), p. 1.</ref> and eventually became known as an active opponent of Tennessee's ]<ref name=":0" /> In the 1909 session he was chair of the committee on jails and workhouses.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (February 7, 1909), p. 3.</ref> That session he introduced a bill to enable the state to earn interest on state money deposited with banks; at that time the state did not earn any interest on their deposits, which could be up to a million dollars.<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (April 22, 1909), p. 4.</ref> He did not run for re-election for the 1911 session.<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (August 22, 1910), p. 3.</ref>

In April 1911 he was appointed poll tax collector for Hamilton county, a newly created position, for an eight-year term.<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (April 19, 1911), p. 5.</ref> He was a member of the board that ran the primary elections for Hamilton County in August 1912.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (July 8, 1912), p. 3.</ref>
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In October 1914 he announced his candidacy for city attorney of Chattanooga.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (October 6, 1914), p. 5.</ref>. He was elected to the post on April 13, 1915<ref name=":0" /><ref>''Journal and Tribune'' (April 14, 1915), p. 5.</ref> and consequently resigned his post as poll tax collector.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (April 21, 1915), p. 5.</ref> That April he also started a law firm, Carden & Snyder, with W. R. Snyder. <ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (April 20, 1915), p. 12.</ref> Carden was re-elected as city attorney in 1919.<ref name=":2" /> In 1922 Carden and Ruth Durant Evans assembled all Chattanooga's ordinances into a single volume that became known as the Carden and Evans Code.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (April 30, 1922), p. 5.</ref><ref name=":3">''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (March 4, 1934), p. 5.</ref>. Carden resigned in July 1922 and returned to practicing law privately.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">''Chattanooga News'' (March 3, 1934), p. 1.</ref><ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (July 7, 1922), p. 14.</ref>

He was one of the founders of the ] in the 1920s.<ref name=":2" /> In 1926, Carden was one of the lawyers who wrote an ] for the ] for the ].<ref>''The Tennessean'' (May 28, 1926), p. 11.</ref>

He was active in the campaign in Tennessee for the ] to the US constitution, repealing ].<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (March 4, 1909), p. 5.</ref>

He married Frances Campbell on June 25, 1908.<ref name=":0" /><ref>''Nashville Banner'' (June 26, 1908), p. 7.</ref> They had three children;<ref name=":0" /> their daughter Frances was born in October 1909,<ref>''Chattanooga News'' (October 22, 1909), p. 8.</ref><ref>''Knoxville Sentinel'' (October 30, 1909), p. 8.</ref> and their son Campbell in September 1915,<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (September 4, 1915), p. 6.</ref> He also had a son named Frank Jr.,<ref name=":2" /> and a daughter, Alice Hall Carden.<ref>''Chattanooga Daily Times'' (September 17, 1933), p. 18.</ref> He died of heart disease in Chattanooga on March 3, 1934,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":4">''Chattanooga News'' (March 5, 1934), p. 2.</ref> and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery.<ref name=":4" /> At the time of his death he was a senior partner in the law firm of Shepherd, Carden, Curry & Levine.<ref>Shalett (March 4, 1934), p. 6.</ref>

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== Sources ==

=== Newspapers by date ===
* {{Cite news |date=April 7, 1906 |title=Frank S. Carden a New Candidate for Democratic Nomination --Cummings and Watson Will Run Again |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-carden-declares-can/162122259/ |work=] |pages=11}}
* {{Cite news |date=September 15, 1906 |title=Cummings, Carden and Groner are the nominees |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-carden-gets-democra/162123235/ |work=] |pages=8}}
* {{Cite news |date=September 22, 1906 |title=Well Qualified for the Office |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-bio-of-frank-carden/162124003/ |work=] |pages=8}}
* {{Cite news |date=November 7, 1906 |title=Three Democrats for Legislators |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-hamilton-county/162125618/ |work=] |pages=9}}
* {{Cite news |date=February 20, 1907 |title=New Engineering Firm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-star-brothers-of-frank-c/162126546/ |work=] |pages=3}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 7, 1907 |title=New Law Firm |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-start-of-vance-ca/162126964/ |work=] |pages=9}}
* {{Cite news |date=February 5, 1907 |title=Temperance Sidesteps for Other Legislation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/knoxville-sentinel-pendleton-law-frank/162128030/ |work=] |pages=3}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 21, 1907 |title=Would Make Charter Bill Effective Jan. 1 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/knoxville-sentinel-charter-bill-mention/162127247/ |work=] |pages=1}}
* {{Cite news |date=June 26, 1908 |title=Carden-Campbell |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/nashville-banner-marriage-of-campbell/162138807/ |work=] |pages=7}}
* {{Cite news |date=November 4, 1908 |title=Hamilton Co.'s Legislative Race |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-1908-tn-election-re/162140388/ |work=] |pages=12}}
* {{Cite news |date=January 14, 1909 |title=Frank Carden Makes Brilliant Speech Against Prohibition Force Bill, But It Has No Effect With State-Widers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-chattanoogan-carden-speech-aga/162142043/ |work=] |pages=1}}
* {{Cite news |date=February 7, 1909 |title=Sentenced by Speaker |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-carden-committee/162142742/ |work=] |pages=3}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 22, 1909 |title=Representative Frank Carden |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-frank-carden-bill-t/162170463/ |work=] |pages=4}}
* {{Cite news |date=October 18, 1909 |title=Society |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-frank-cardens-daug/162194511/ |work=] |pages=6}}
* {{Cite news |date=October 30, 1909 |title=Society News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/knoxville-sentinel-frank-carden-daughter/162195543/ |work=] |pages=8}}
* {{Cite news |date=August 22, 1910 |title=Frank Carden Will Not Run for Legislature |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-frank-carden-declin/162200555/ |work=] |pages=3}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 19, 1911 |title=Frank S. Carden Poll Tax Collector |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-frank-carden-appoin/162201406/ |work=] |pages=5}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 19, 1911 |title=F. S. Carden Appointed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-frank-carden-pol/162201834/ |work=] |pages=5}}
* {{Cite news |date=July 8, 1912 |title=Primary Boards Named for Counties of State |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-frank-carden-nam/162235001/ |work=] |pages=3}}
* {{Cite news |date=October 6, 1914 |title=Three for City Attorney |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-frank-carden-for/162235643/ |work=] |pages=5}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 14, 1915 |title=Littleton Ticket Won |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-and-tribune-results-of-april/162236994/ |work=] |pages=5|location=Knoxville, Tennessee}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 20, 1915 |title=Form Law Partnership |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-frank-carden-law/162237457/ |work=] |pages=12}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 21, 1915 |title=Bryan New Delinquent Poll Tax Collector |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-carden-resigns-a/162237274/ |work=] |pages=11}}
* {{Cite news |date=September 4, 1915 |title=Personal Mention of Well-Known People |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-son-of-frank-car/162241688/ |work=] |pages=6}}
* {{Cite news |date=April 30, 1922 |title=Carden's City Code Ready for Distribution |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-carden-evans-c/162245761/ |work=] |pages=5}}
* {{Cite news |date=July 7, 1922 |title=City Attorney Frank Carden Resigns Office |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-carden-resigns-c/162247749/ |work=] |pages=14}}
* {{Cite news |date=May 28, 1926 |title=Science Academy's Brief Quotes Two Vandy Professors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/178447470/ |work=The Tennessean |location=Nashville, Tennessee |pages=1, }}
* {{Cite news |date=September 17, 1933 |title=Miss Carden Bride of Cecil F. Holland |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-wedding-of-alice/162248222/ |work=] |pages=18}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 3, 1934 |title=Frank Carden, Noted Lawyer, Passes Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-obituary-of-frank-c/162242856/ |work=] |pages=1}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 4, 1934 |title=Heart Attack Proves Fatal to F. S. Carden |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-obituary-for-car/162244867/ |work=] |pages=5}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 4, 1934 |title=Frank Carden Dies; Long Dry Law Foe |work=] |pages=31}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 5, 1934 |title=Last Rites Today for Frank Carden |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-last-rites-for-f/162245467/ |work=] |pages=2}}
* {{Cite news |date=March 5, 1934 |title=Funeral Services for Frank S. Carden Monday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chattanooga-news-funeral-services-fo/162246409/ |work=] |pages=2}}

=== Newspapers by author ===
* {{Cite news |date=March 4, 1934 |title=Courthouse Hill |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chattanooga-daily-times-remembrances-of/162242320/ |work=] |pages=6 |ref=none |last=Shalett |first=Sidney M.}}

=== Other sources ===

* {{Cite book |last=Students of Cumberland University |title=The Phoenix |publisher=Cumberland University |year=1904 |location=Lebanon, Tennessee |ref=None}}

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Tennessee politician
Frank S. Carden
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives
In office
1907–1911
ConstituencyHamilton
Personal details
Born(1882-02-06)February 6, 1882
Franklin, North Carolina, U.S.
DiedMarch 4, 1934(1934-03-04) (aged 52)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseFrances Campbell
EducationCumberland Law School
OccupationLawyer, politician

Frank S. Carden (February 6, 1882 – March 3, 1934) was an attorney and politician.

Career

Frank Stamper Carden was born in Franklin, North Carolina; his father, W. C. Carden, was a Southern Methodist Minister, and his mother was Martha Stewart. His siblings included Leonard A. Carden and Robert A. Carden, who later were partners in Carden Brothers, an engineering firm; and two sisters, Mary Carden and Mrs. Milton V. Griscomb.

Frank Carden spent two years at Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and then went to Trinity College, graduating in 1901 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He taught in eastern North Carolina, and then worked for an iron, coal and coke company in West Virginia, before obtaining a law degree from Cumberland Law School. He was editor in chief of the Cumberland Weekly, a student paper of the university, during the spring 1904 term.

Carden declared his candidacy for the Tennessee House of Representatives in April 1906, for Hamilton county, and won the nomination at the Democratic convention on September 15. At the general election in November he won 3,230 votes and was elected for the 1907 term. He chaired the municipal affairs committee during this term. In February 1907, when the Pendleton bill (a temperance bill) came before the house, Carden spoke against it, saying that "the state is running mad over temperance and reform".

In March 1907 he started a law firm, Vance & Carden, in Chattanooga, with a partner, D. B. Vance.

He was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives again for the 1909 legislative session, this time with 4,579 votes. In January 1909 he spoke against the prohibition bill being debated, and eventually became known as an active opponent of Tennessee's dry laws. In the 1909 session he was chair of the committee on jails and workhouses. That session he introduced a bill to enable the state to earn interest on state money deposited with banks; at that time the state did not earn any interest on their deposits, which could be up to a million dollars. He did not run for re-election for the 1911 session.

In April 1911 he was appointed poll tax collector for Hamilton county, a newly created position, for an eight-year term. He was a member of the board that ran the primary elections for Hamilton County in August 1912.

Head and shoulders of a man in a suit and tie
Frank S. Carden in about 1915

In October 1914 he announced his candidacy for city attorney of Chattanooga.. He was elected to the post on April 13, 1915 and consequently resigned his post as poll tax collector. That April he also started a law firm, Carden & Snyder, with W. R. Snyder. Carden was re-elected as city attorney in 1919. In 1922 Carden and Ruth Durant Evans assembled all Chattanooga's ordinances into a single volume that became known as the Carden and Evans Code.. Carden resigned in July 1922 and returned to practicing law privately.

He was one of the founders of the Children's Hospital at Erlanger in the 1920s. In 1926, Carden was one of the lawyers who wrote an amicus brief for the Tennessee Academy of Science for the Scopes Trial.

He was active in the campaign in Tennessee for the Twenty-First Amendment to the US constitution, repealing prohibition.

He married Frances Campbell on June 25, 1908. They had three children; their daughter Frances was born in October 1909, and their son Campbell in September 1915, He also had a son named Frank Jr., and a daughter, Alice Hall Carden. He died of heart disease in Chattanooga on March 3, 1934, and was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. At the time of his death he was a senior partner in the law firm of Shepherd, Carden, Curry & Levine.

References

  1. ^ New York Times (March 4, 1934), p. 31.
  2. Chattanooga Daily Times (March 5, 1934), p. 2.
  3. ^ Chattanooga News (March 3, 1934), p. 1.
  4. Chattanooga Star (February 20, 1907), p. 3.
  5. ^ Chattanooga News (September 22, 1906), p. 8.
  6. ^ Chattanooga Daily Times (March 4, 1934), p. 5.
  7. Students of Cumberland University (1904), p. 131.
  8. Chattanooga News (April 7, 1906), p. 11.
  9. Chattanooga News (September 15, 1906), p. 8.
  10. Chattanooga Daily News (November 7, 1906), p. 9.
  11. "Tennessee 55th General Assembly". www.capitol.tn.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  12. Knoxville Sentinel (March 21, 1907), p. 1.
  13. Knoxville Sentinel (February 5, 1907), p. 3.
  14. Chattanooga News (March 7, 1907), p. 9.
  15. "Tennessee 56th General Assembly". www.capitol.tn.gov. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  16. Chattanooga News (November 4, 1908), p. 12.
  17. Daily Chattanooga (January 14, 1909), p. 1.
  18. Chattanooga Daily Times (February 7, 1909), p. 3.
  19. Chattanooga News (April 22, 1909), p. 4.
  20. Chattanooga News (August 22, 1910), p. 3.
  21. Chattanooga News (April 19, 1911), p. 5.
  22. Chattanooga Daily Times (July 8, 1912), p. 3.
  23. Chattanooga Daily Times (October 6, 1914), p. 5.
  24. Journal and Tribune (April 14, 1915), p. 5.
  25. Chattanooga Daily Times (April 21, 1915), p. 5.
  26. Chattanooga Daily Times (April 20, 1915), p. 12.
  27. Chattanooga Daily Times (April 30, 1922), p. 5.
  28. Chattanooga Daily Times (July 7, 1922), p. 14.
  29. The Tennessean (May 28, 1926), p. 11.
  30. Chattanooga Daily Times (March 4, 1909), p. 5.
  31. Nashville Banner (June 26, 1908), p. 7.
  32. Chattanooga News (October 22, 1909), p. 8.
  33. Knoxville Sentinel (October 30, 1909), p. 8.
  34. Chattanooga Daily Times (September 4, 1915), p. 6.
  35. Chattanooga Daily Times (September 17, 1933), p. 18.
  36. ^ Chattanooga News (March 5, 1934), p. 2.
  37. Shalett (March 4, 1934), p. 6.

Sources

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Other sources

  • Students of Cumberland University (1904). The Phoenix. Lebanon, Tennessee: Cumberland University.
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