After serving in the
US Navy during
World War I he practiced law in
Lumberton, North Carolina. After serving as the solicitor of the 9th judicial district of North Carolina he was elected to the
81st United States Congress. Carlyle would serve two more terms before losing re-election in 1956. He was a signatory to the 1956
Southern Manifesto that opposed the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in
Brown v. Board of Education. ==External links==