His career in electoral politics began at an unlikely place.

It was, well, it was at a urinal.

Everybody knew in his family that Ralph was going to be the one who went to college, and

he was going to be the one who kind of escaped the mining world.

Ralph Carr had grown up in Colorado.

His father was a gold and silver miner.

But it was pretty clear from the start that Ralph, this miner's son, he was not destined

for the mines.

Maybe it was simply because he himself was kind of picked on as a child, that he identified

with those in society who were picked on.

He found himself sympathetic to the individual who just needed a pat on the back.

That's journalist and author Adam Schreger.

Ralph Carr is short. He's jowly. He's bookish. He's very much a conservative. He has a legendary

temper. He grew up in the diverse Wild West mining towns of the state of Colorado. He speaks fluent

Spanish. He's comfortable with people of all races. He spent a little time working at Colorado newspapers,

but then he went back to school and got his law degree.

He was an interesting guy, a capable guy, well regarded.

Ralph Carr always described being a country lawyer as the best of all worlds as a lawyer

because you had to learn something about everything.

Love the opportunity to be able to help people in whatever problems they were facing.

Having a good reputation as a country lawyer gets Ralph Carr a job as an assistant attorney general

with the state. Having an even better reputation at that job gets him a federal

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