Carl Nett

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carl A. Nett | image = | image_size = 180px | state_house = Kentucky | district = 35th | term_start = January 1, 1970 | term_end = January 1, 1991 | predecessor = Charles Vanover | successor = Jim Wayne | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1941|12|2}} | birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky, United States | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | occupation = | spouse = | children = | relations = | alma_mater = }}

'''Carl Anthony Nett''' (born December 2, 1941) was an American politician in the state of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1970 to 1991.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/24575|title=2006OH155 Leg 141 - Louie B Nunn Center for Oral History|work=kentuckyoralhistory.org|accessdate=24 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128115121/http://www.kentuckyoralhistory.org/interviews/24575|archive-date=28 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyx.uky.edu/oh/render.php?cachefile=2006OH155_LEG141_Nett.xml|title=Interview with Carl A. Nett, August 14, 2006|work=uky.edu|accessdate=24 January 2015}}</ref> He was first elected to the house in 1969, defeating Republican incumbent Charles Vanover. In 1990 he lost renomination to Jim Wayne.

Nett's son, Carl Benjamin "Ben" Nett worked for the U.S. Secret Service and the CIA, then as a police officer in Purcellville, Virginia, in 2022,<ref>{{cite news |title=Candidates for Town Council |url=https://blueridgeleader.com/candidates-for-town-council/ |access-date=16 February 2026 |work=The Blue Ridge Leader and Loudoun Today |date=4 September 2024}}</ref> before joining its City Council, then being twice-appointed as vice mayor, in 2025 and 2026.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schwartzman |first1=Paul |title='Us versus them': The battle that's tearing a small Virginia town apart |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/02/16/purcellville-virginia-town-conflict/ |access-date=16 February 2026 |work=The Washington Post |date=16 February 2026}}</ref>

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