Carey was born in Delaware in 1845 and came to Wyoming after being appointed United States Attorney for the Territory of Wyoming in 1869. He was still in his twenties at the time. In 1871 he became an Associated Justice for the Territorial Wyoming Supreme Court, still at an absurdly young age. He became mayor of Cheyenne in 1880. Following statehood, he became a Senator in 1890. In 1895 he was not reelected by the legislature, which elected Senators at the time, due to his opposition to free silver, an opposition which was economically correct. He was elected Governor in 1910 and served until 1915, joining the Progressive Party with Progressives bolted from the Republican Party.
Staying true to his Progressive views, he endorsed Woodrow Wilson during the 1916 election. He was a supporter of Prohibition.
In addition to being a lawyer and politicians, he was a rancher, with large ranching interest in Central Wyoming. In many ways, he's is representative of an era in Wyoming when people could come from out of state and become central in many aspects of the state's economic and political life.
In 1959, he was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
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