Background
Carter was born in Kentwood, also Tangipahoa Parish, to Thomas Lane Carter and the former Anna Hennen Jennings.
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William Carter
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He was educated at Sheffield High School in Sheffield, Alabama, at a college preparatory school in Lebanon, Tennessee, and Rugby Academy and Tulane University, both in New Orleans.
Career
Carter was a leading spokesman for the anti-Long faction. After college, he worked in both sugar and cotton production and became the cashier of the American Cotton Oil Company in Vidalia, the seat of Concordia Parish, located west of the Mississippi River. He moved to Hammond in 1905, and the following year wed the former Irma Dutartre of Natchez in Adams County in western Mississippi.
She was the daughter of cotton planter John Doctorate. Dutartre and the former Corinne Henderson.
He worked for several farming associations. In 1924, he became manager of the Farm Bureau in Hammond.
He and Irma had three children: William Hodding Carter, II (1907–1972), a newspaper editor, publisher, and author John Boatner Carter (born 1908), and Corinne Carter (born 1910).
From 1928 to 1934, Carter served on the Tangipahoa Parish Police Jury, the parish governing board akin to the county commission in most states.
Foreign several years, he was the postmaster in Hammond. He served on the board of trustees of Hammond Junior College, which subsequently became Southeastern Louisiana University, until he was removed from that position by Governor Huey Pierce Long, Junior., of whom he was an intraparty rival. Carter died in Hammond and is interred there at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Political Party
Democratic party