Isaac White Carpenter Jr. (January 5, 1893 – May 6, 1983)[1] was an American business executive and federal political appointee.
[1] His father, as company president, was one of 50 members elected in 1898 to the board of directors of the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition world's fair.
It bought the St. Regis Corporation in 1984, and sold its Canton, North Carolina, plant to the employees in 1999, resulting in a separate company.
[7][8] Carpenter then took on a combined role as Assistant Secretary for Administration on August 11, 1955,[8] during a recess of the Senate.
[10] Elizabeth, a granddaughter of real estate businessman and local politician Byron Reed,[11] died in 1964, sometime after which Carpenter married Fredericka Clara Nash.