William Blount Carter

William Blount Carter
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
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

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, 1792. He attended the public schools and served as a colonel in the United States Army during the War of 1812.

Career

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]

Death

Carter died in Elizabethton, Tennessee on April 17, 1848 (age 55 years, 178 days). He is interred at the Carter Cemetery at Elizabethton.[3]

Family

Carter was an uncle of General Samuel P. Carter and Congressman Nathaniel Green Taylor. Another nephew, also named William Blount Carter (18201902), was a prominent Southern Unionist and mastermind of the East Tennessee bridge burnings during the Civil War.[4]

References

  1. "William Blount Carter". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  2. "William Blount Carter". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  3. "William Blount Carter". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  4. Oliver Perry Temple, Mary Boyce Temple (ed.), "William Blount Carter," Notable Men of Tennessee (Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), pp. 88-89.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
John Blair
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 1st congressional district

1835-1841
Succeeded by
Thomas D. Arnold