Background
Carp, Richard Lawrence was born on January 26, 1926 in St. Louis. Son of Avery and Ruth Carp.
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Richard Lawrence Carp
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Student, University Missouri, Columbia, 1944; certified, Sorbonne U., Paris, 1946; Bachelor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1947; postgraduate, Graduate Institute International Studies, Geneva, 1949; Juris Doctor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1951.
Career
Member, unites states department of State, Washington, 1951-1953;
member of staff, Senator Paul H. Douglas (Democratic Illinois), Washington, 1953-1954;
associate, Fordyce, Mayne, Hartman, Renard, and Stribling, St. Louis, 1954-1963;
sole practice, St. Louis, 1963-1968;
partner, Carp & Morris, St. Louis, 1968-1990;
partner, Carp, Sexauer and Carr, St. Louis, 1990-1994;
partner, Carp and Sexauer, St. Louis, since 1994. Associate counsel, acting chief counsel United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, Washington, 1956. Member St. Louis Regional United States Export Expansion Council, 1964-1974.
Member Missouri Commision on Human Rights, 1966-1978, vice chairman, 1977-1978. Vice chairman, board directors Pastoral Counselling Institute for Greater St. Louis, 1964-1991. Member board of trustees The Academy Science, St. Louis, since 1984, assistant treasurer, since 1992.
Member of advisory board George Engelmann Mathematics and Science Institute, 1992-1996. Board directors St. Louis Center for Internat.Rels. Advisor Ethiopian Cmty.
Association St. Louis, since 1995. Legal advisorImage, Inc., St. Louis, since 1998.
Achievements
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Member Common Cause, 1966-1978, chairman Missouri chapter, 1973-1975. Board directors International Institute of Metro St. Louis, 1980-1986, English Speaking Union, St. Louis, since 1985, St. Louis Center for International Rels., since 1998. With United States Army, 1944-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Fellow American Academy Matrimonial Lawyers. Member American Bar Association (immigration law coordinator committee, chairman general practice section 1981-1986), Missouri Bar Association, Bar Association Metropolitan St. Louis (chairman international law and trade committee 1973-1979, chairman immigration law committee 1989-1992), American Immigration Lawyers Association, St. Louis Center for International Rels. (board directors since 1998), Phi Delta Phi.
