Lou Carrol

Louis Leon Carrol (March 28, 1923 – April 3, 2006) was an American businessman who is best known for giving then-U.S. Senator Richard Nixon a puppy in 1952 that was used as the subject of the Checkers speech, which kept Nixon on the Republican ticket as the vice presidential candidate in that year's presidential election.

Carrol was born in Lynn, Massachusetts and graduated from Lynn English High School in 1940. He graduated from the Bentley Business School in Boston. After graduation, he served as an officer in the United States Army in European Theater of Operations during World War II and received the Bronze Star Medal for valor and Purple Heart for injuries during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he attended Indiana University Bloomington, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business in 1948. He also served in the army reserves until 1953.

Carrol was senior executive vice president of sales at Lawson Products Inc. in Des Plaines, Illinois at his retirement in 1996. His death was attributed to natural causes.

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