Hodding Carter
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Hodding Carter in 1962
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William Hodding Carter, II February 3, 1907 Hammond, Louisiana, United States |
| Died | April 4, 1972 (aged 65) Greenville, Mississippi, United States |
| Occupation | Journalist; writer |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Werlein, 1911–2000. |
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William Hodding III Philip Dutartre Thomas Hennen Carter. |
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"A staunch Democrat who opposed Huey P. Long, Jr."
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William Hodding Carter, II (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972), was a Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author.
Carter was born in Hammond, Louisiana, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana. His parents were William Hodding Carter I, and the former Irma Dutartre. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow. He died in Greenville, Mississippi, of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five. He is interred in the Greenville Cemetery.
Carter was valedictorian of the Hammond High School class of 1923. Carter attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (1927), and the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University (1928).
He returned to Louisiana upon graduating. According to Ann Waldron, the young Carter was an outspoken white supremacist, like most Southerners of that time, yet he began to alter his thinking when he returned to the South to live.
After a year as a teaching fellow at Tulane University in New Orleans (1928–1929), Carter worked as reporter for the New Orleans Item-Tribune (1929), United Press in New Orleans (1930), and the Associated Press in Jackson, Mississippi, (1931–32).
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