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Carson, Brad

U.S. House of Representatives
Oklahoma District 2
Democrat
Began Service: 2001

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Born in Winslow, Arizona, March 11, 1967. 

A graduate of Jenks High School in 1985, Carson went on to receive his B.A., with highest honors, from Baylor University, which inducted him into Phi Beta Kappa. As a Rhodes Scholar, Carson obtained a masters degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University in the United Kingdom. 

From 1992 through 1995, Carson attended the University of Oklahoma, where he was recognized as the Outstanding Law School Graduate. 

In September 1997 he joined the Department of Defense, where he worked with and visited American troops and bases across the United States and in the United Kingdom, Germany, Bosnia, Turkey, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. 

Before joining the Defense Department, Carson was an attorney in private practice. Because of his work on behalf of low-income Oklahomans, his firm was awarded the 1996 Exceptional Contribution to Legal Services Award by Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma. 

Carson serves on Baylor University’s Sesquicentennial Council and the Committee on Liberal Arts. He has been on the Board of Directors of Legal Services of Eastern Oklahoma and taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa’s Law School. 

Carson is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, and a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and the Cherokee Bar Association. 

Brad and his wife, Julie, are members of the First Baptist Church in Claremore.