George Albert Carpenter

Who was George Albert Carpenter?

George Albert Carpenter was a United States federal judge.

Carpenter was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1888 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1891. He was in private practice in Chicago from 1891 to 1905. In 1906, he became a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Carpenter was nominated to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois by President William H. Taft on December 13, 1909. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on January 11, 1910, and received his commission the same day.

Carpenter was the judge who presided over the trial of Jack Johnson under the Mann Act and passed sentence.

He resigned on June 30, 1933, and returned to private practice in Chicago, where he died in 1944.