Members of the Carter family were "among the earliest settlers of Tennessee" and their descendants became "one of the most illustrious families in the state."
* John Carter of
Watauga Association
**
Landon C. Carter, Revolutionary War soldier, namesake of
Carter County, Tennessee while
Elizabethton
Elizabethton is a city in, and the county seat of Carter County, Tennessee, United States. Elizabethton is the historical site of the first independent American government (known as the Watauga Association, created in 1772) located west of both th ...
is named for his wife Elizabeth Maclin
*** U.S. Representative
William Blount Carter
William Blount Carter (October 22, 1792 – April 17, 1848) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's first district in the United States House of Representatives.
Biography
Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee on October 22 ...
*** Mary Carter
**** U.S. Representative
Nathaniel Green Taylor
***** Tennessee governor
Alf Taylor
***** Tennessee governor and U.S. Senator
Robert Love Taylor
*** Alfred Moore Carter
**** Union Army officer
Samuel Perry Carter
****
Rev. William Blount Carter
**** Secretary of Arizona Territory
James Patton Taylor Carter
See also
*
Landon Carter Haynes
References
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Families from Tennessee