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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.
William Blount Carter | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st district | |
In office March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841 | |
Preceded by | John Blair |
Succeeded by | Thomas D. Arnold |
Member of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
Member of the Tennessee Senate | |
Personal details | |
Born | October 22, 1792 Elizabethton, Tennessee |
Died | April 17, 1848 (aged 55) Elizabethton, Tennessee |
Political party | Whig |
Relations | Samuel P. Carter (nephew) Nathaniel G. Taylor (nephew) |
Profession | soldier, politician |
Carter was born in Elizabethton, Tennessee on October 22, 1792. He attended the public schools and served as a colonel in the United States Army during the War of 1812.
Carter served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and he served in the Tennessee Senate. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1834 and served as its presiding officer.[1]
Carter was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian 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.[2] He owned slaves.[3]
Carter died in Elizabethton, Tennessee on April 17, 1848 (age 55 years, 178 days). He is interred at the Carter Cemetery at Elizabethton.[4]
Carter was an uncle of General Samuel P. Carter 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.[5]
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