Background
Carter, Hodding was born on February 3, 1907 in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. Son of William Hodding and Irma (Dutartre) Carter.
Carter, Hodding was born on February 3, 1907 in Hammond, Louisiana, United States. Son of William Hodding and Irma (Dutartre) Carter.
Bachelor of Arts, Bowdoin College, 1927. Student journalism, Columbia, 1927-1928, Tulane University, 1928-1929, Harvard, 1939. Master of Arts (honorary) Harvard, 1947.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Bowdoin College, 1947.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Washington University, 1954, Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, 1965. Doctor of Humanities, Coe College.
1958. Doctor of Laws, Allegheny College.
Teaching fellow at Tulane University, 1928-1929. Reporter New Orleans Item-Tribune, 1929. Night bureau manager, United Press, New Orleans, 1930.
Manager Associate Press Bureau, Jackson, Mississippi, 1931-1932.
Started Daily Courier, Hammond, Louisiana, editor, public, 1932-1936. Started Delta Star, Greenville, Mississippi, editor, public, 1936-1938.
Editor, public Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Mississippi, from 1939. Newspaper editor Prime Minister, 1939.
Civilian aide to secretary of army, 1952-1960.
Writer in residence Tulane University, 1962-1968. Trustee of George Peabody College for Teachers, 1952-1965. Member of the board of overseers Bowdoin College.
Member National Citizens Council Better Schools.
Board visitors Tulane University, 1953-1962. Member Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board, 1951-1961.
Joined National Guard, 1938. Public Dixie, 31st division paper, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1940.
Army bureau of Public Relations, Washington, District of Columbia, 1940-1941.
Editor: Stars and Stripes, Yank, Middle East edits, Cairo, Egypt. Retired as major, 1945. Awarded War Department citation, 1946.
Received Nieman fellowship for newspapermen, Harvard, 1939, Guggenheim fellowship, 1945, Pulitzer prize 1946, Southern Literary Award, 1945.
Fellow Sigma Delta Chi, 1954. William A. White Foundation national citation of journalistic merit, 1961.
Recipient Bowdoin Prize, 1963. First Federal award, 1968.
Journalism Alumni award Columbia University, 1971.
Member American Society Newspaper.
Married Betty Werlein, October 14, 1931. Children: William Hodding III, Philip Dutartre.