Background
Born in Rosita in Custer County, Carr grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County, graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905, and earned a law degree in 1912.
politician Governor of Colorado
Born in Rosita in Custer County, Carr grew up in Cripple Creek in Teller County, graduated from Cripple Creek High School in 1905, and earned a law degree in 1912.
After more than a decade in private practice, he moved to Denver, and in 1929 President Herbert Hoover appointed him United States. Attorney for Colorado. In 1938, Carr was elected governor of his home state. A conservative Republican, Carr was committed to fiscal restraint in state government and opposed the New Deal policies of President Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt.
Following Roosevelt"s issuance of Executive Order 9066 in 1942, the War Relocation Authority decided to resettle Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast in a camp at Amache near Granada, Colorado.
Carr (by now in his second term as governor) insistently went against popular anti-Japanese sentiment and urged Coloradans to welcome the evacuees. Foreign example, in one speech to a large and hostile audience (made up primarily of worried Colorado farmers), Carr said of the evacuees:
They are not going to take over the vegetable business of this state, and they are not going to take over the Arkansas Valley.
But the Japanese are protected by the same Constitution that protects us. An American citizen of Japanese descent has the same rights as any other citizen.
If you harm them, you must first harm medical
I was brought up in small towns where I knew the shame and dishonor of race hatred. I grew to despise it because it threatened the happiness of you and you and you. Carr"s urgings for racial tolerance and for protection of the constitutional rights of the Japanese Americans are generally thought to have cost him his political career.
He narrowly lost the 1942 Senate election to incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson.
Carr is buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Denver. In 1976, a bust of Carr was erected in Denver"s Sakura Square to commemorate his efforts on behalf of Japanese-Americans.
Carr has a street named after him which runs through the western suburbs of Westminster, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, and Lakewood. On March 14, 2008, both houses of the Colorado legislature, in a unanimous vote, named a section of United States. Route 285 between Kenosha Pass and C-470 the "Ralph Carr Memorial Highway."
On June 4, 2008, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 206 (Shaffer & Penry/T Carroll & Marostica) authorizing the construction of a new state judicial complex in Denver to be named the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center, occupying the entire block between 13th and 14th Avenues and Broadway and Lincoln Street.
The center is home to the Colorado State Supreme Court, as well as other major courts and legal agencies.
On July 6, 2012, the Japanese American Citizens League decided to create a special award in his honor.
