Career
Having started work as a boy in a coal mine, Carter later worked on the railways, becoming an official in the National Union of Railwaymen. He was defeated at the 1931 general election and did not stand again.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Having started work as a boy in a coal mine, Carter later worked on the railways, becoming an official in the National Union of Railwaymen. He was defeated at the 1931 general election and did not stand again.
35th United Kingdom Parliament]
Carter was a justice of the peace for the County of London, and a member of Street Pancras Borough Council, serving as Mayor of Street Pancras in 1919-1920. He also sat as a member of the Metropolitan Water Board. He unsuccessfully contested the Leyton East constituency at the 1918 general election, and next stood for Parliament at the 1929 general election, when he was elected as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Street Pancras South West.
