He was admitted to the bar in 1897 and thereafter practiced law in New York City.

Carew was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third and to the eight succeeding Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1913, until his resignation on December 28, 1929, having been appointed a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

He was subsequently elected to a fourteen-year term on that court in November 1930, and served until December 31, 1943, when he reached the constitutional age limit.

Carew is best remembered as the judge who presided over the trial for custody of 10-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt in 1934.

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