Carlos Avery

Carlos Avery (1868–1930), was an American newspaper publisher and politician in the state of Minnesota. Avery is best remembered as a long time chief of the Minnesota Game and Fish Commission and was named the first Commissioner of the Game and Fish Commission when that position was created in August 1915. He is the namesake of the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area in that state.

Briefly serving as mayor of his hometown of Hutchinson, Minnesota during the first decade of the 20th Century, Avery was several times an unsuccessful candidate for high political office, losing in bids for the Minnesota State Senate in 1902, United States Congress in 1914, and for Governor of Minnesota in 1924, running as the nominee of the Democratic Party in each instance.

Carlos Avery was born in Minoaka, Grundy County, Illinois on January 25, 1868. He was raised on a farm near Hutchinson, Minnesota, and attended Hutchinson High School, from which he graduated in 1881. He was the son of Franklin Carlos Avery (1846-1915), an owner of harness racing horses who was murdered by a stable boy in Florida in December 1915.

After graduation, Avery became the editor of the Hutchinson Leader, a weekly newspaper established in 1881 with a pronounced Democratic Party political orientation. Avery was not squeamish about employment of his paper as a political foil, actively participating in the Third Congressional District Editorial Association with likeminded others as early as 1898. By 1903 Avery's paper had a circulation of about 2,200 copies, earning honors from the New York City trade publication Printer's Ink as one of the best country newspapers in the United States.

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