Born in Jasper County, Mississippi to Eugene Alfonse Carr and Sarah Carr,Judicial Conference of the United States, Judges of the United States (1983), p. 80. Carr served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, from 1940 to 1945, achieving the rank of Technical Sergeant. He attended St. Bernard Junior College (later Southern Benedictine College, closed in 1979) in Cullman, Alabama between September 1940 and June 1942, and returned to his education after the war, attending Loyola University New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana from February 1946 to June 1947. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law in 1950 and was thereafter in private practice in Metairie, Louisiana from 1950 to 1975. He was a judge of the 24th Judicial District Court of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana from 1975 to 1979.
