Carter Tate Barron (January 30, 1905 – November 16, 1950) was a
college football
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Unlike most ...
player and motion picture executive.
College football
![Carter Barron](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Carter_Barron.jpg)
Carter Barron was one of a trio of football playing brothers for
Bill Alexander's
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football
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teams, younger than
Red Barron
David Irenus "Red" Barron (June 21, 1900 – October 4, 1982) was an American football and baseball player. Barron was a three-sport Varsity letter, letterwinner at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In football, he was named second or third t ...
and older than Pat Barron.
[ Carter was selected an All-Southern halfback in 1926. A knee injury ultimately ended his football career.][ Carter also played on the ]baseball
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, basketball
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, and lacrosse
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teams.
Motion picture executive
In 1942, he was named Washington
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representative of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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studios.
Amphitheatre
The Carter Barron Amphitheatre is located in Rock Creek Park
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of Washington, D. C.
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The plan was expanded upon by Barron as Vice-Chairman for the Sesquicentennial Commission in 1947 as a way to memorialize the 150th Anniversary of Washington, D. C. as the nation's capital.
Personal life
Politically a Democrat
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, Barron was a personal friend of presidents Harry Truman
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[ and ]Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
Two of Carter Barron's nieces, Jo Barron Atchison and Alae Risse Lietch, began attending Georgia Tech games when they were young in the 1930s because of tickets sent by Carter Barron. Atchison and Lietch in 2017, were featured in a
article
in the ''Atlanta Journal Constitution'' about their long standing attendance to Tech Football games started by Carter Barron.
See also
*1926 College Football All-Southern Team
The 1926 College Football All-Southern Team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-Southern Teams selected by various organizations for the 1926 Southern Conference football season. Alabama won the SoCon and nat ...
References
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1905 births
1950 deaths
American football halfbacks
All-Southern college football players
People from Clarkesville, Georgia
Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball players
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball players
Washington, D.C., Democrats
People from Washington, D.C.
American men's basketball players