William Blount Carter (October 22, 1792 – April 17, 1848) was an American politician who represented Tennessee's

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in the United States House of Representatives.

Biography

Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee on October 22, 1792. He attended the

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and served as a colonel in the United States Army during the War of 1812.

Career

Carter served as a member of the

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and he served in the Tennessee Senate. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1834 and served as its presiding officer. Carter was elected as an

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to the Twenty-fourth United States Congress and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses. He served as a U.S. Representative from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1841. He owned slaves.

Death

Carter died in Elizabethton, Tennessee on April 17, 1848 (age 55 years, 178 days). He is

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at the Carter Cemetery at Elizabethton.

Family

Carter was an uncle of General

Samuel P. Carter Samuel Perry "Powhatan" Carter (August 6, 1819 – May 26, 1891) was a United States naval officer who served in the Union Army as a Brevet (military), brevet Major general (United States), major general during the American Civil War and became ...

and Congressman Nathaniel Green Taylor. Another nephew, also named William Blount Carter (1820–1902), was a prominent Southern Unionist and mastermind of the East Tennessee bridge burnings during the Civil War. Oliver Perry Temple, Mary Boyce Temple (ed.),
William Blount Carter
" ''Notable Men of Tennessee'' (Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), pp. 88-89.

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