
Joseph Kirtley Carson Jr. (19 December 1891-20 December 1956) was the Democratic Mayor of Portland, Oregon from 1933 to 1941, succeeding George Luis Baker and preceding Earl Riley.
Biography[]
Joseph Kirtley Carson Jr. was born in McKinney, Kentucky in 1891, and he was raised in Hood River, Oregon before moving to Portland in 1914. He served in the US Army during World War I, landing in France in October 1918, and, after the war, he became involved in city politics in Portland as a Democrat. He served as Mayor of Portland from 1933 to 1941, coinciding with the Great Depression, and he marked himself as a conservative Democrat who believed in rugged individualism and opposed the New Deal. He left office in 1941 and served as an Army colonel during World War II, and he served on the US Maritime Commission from 1947 to 1950 and died in 1956.