Hodding Carter III

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Hodding Carter III
Carter in 2006
15th United States Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
In office
March 25, 1977 – June 30, 1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byJohn E. Reinhardt
Succeeded byWilliam J. Dyess
Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
In office
March 25, 1977 – June 30, 1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byRobert Anderson
Succeeded byWilliam J. Dyess
Personal details
Born
William Hodding Carter III

(1935-04-07)April 7, 1935
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedMay 11, 2023(2023-05-11) (aged 88)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
  • Margaret A. Wolfe
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1957; div. 1978)​
  • Patricia M. Derian
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1978; died 2016)​
  • Patricia O'Brien
    ​
    (m. 2019)​
Children4, including Finn
Parent
Alma materPrinceton University
Profession
  • Journalist
  • civil servant
  • professor

William Hodding Carter III (April 7, 1935 – May 11, 2023) was an American journalist and politician who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. He frequently appeared on the news and provided updates during the Iran hostage crisis.

Early life

Carter was born in New Orleans in 1935, the son of newspaper editor Hodding Carter and Betty Werlein Carter.[1] He was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, where his father founded the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, and was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Greenville High School, and Princeton University.[1] He was in the United States Marine Corps from 1957 to 1959, before joining the staff of his father's newspaper.[1]

Career

Journalism

While with the Delta Democrat-Times, Carter wrote the book The South Strikes Back. He won the

Sigma Delta Chi National Profession Journalism Society Award for Editorial Writing in 1961.[2]

In the 1960s, Carter was involved in the

Civil Rights Movement, both editorially and in political action. In 1968, he co-chaired the "Loyal Democrats of Mississippi" that replaced Mississippi's previously all-white delegation to the Democratic National Convention, but later criticized the Delta Ministry (part of the biracial coalition) in his editorials.[3]

Political involvement

In 1964, he worked on

State Department spokesman.[1][4]

During the Iran hostage crisis in 1979 and 1980, Carter regularly appeared on network evening news,[1] coming into the public eye much more frequently than most of his predecessors and successors.[5]

Later work

When

This Week with David Brinkley, while he also regularly wrote op-ed columns for various newspapers including The Wall Street Journal.[2] He gave the 1986 commencement speech at George Washington University.[9]

Beginning in 1994, he served as the Knight Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at the

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.[11]

Carter then lectured at universities all over the country and continued to do freelance work for the television and print media. His final position was University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[12]

Carter contributed to After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age, published in May 2015.[13]

Personal life

Carter was married three times: first to Margaret Ainsworth, from 1957 until their divorce in 1978, then to

Patricia M. Derian, from 1978 until her death in 2016, and then to Patricia Ann O'Brien, from 2019 until his death.[1] He had four children, including actress Finn Carter.[1]

On May 11, 2023, Carter died at a retirement home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 88, following a series of strokes.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h McFadden, Robert D. (May 12, 2023). "Hodding Carter III, Crusading Editor and Jimmy Carter Aide, Dies at 88". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 12, 2023. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "American Press Institute Mini-Biography". Archived from the original on April 26, 2006. Retrieved October 6, 2006.
  3. ^ "Review of Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. By Mark Newman (Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2004)". Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Volume 36, Number 1, Summer 2005, pp. 122–123.
  4. ^ "List of Assistant Secretaries of State for Public Affairs (US Government)". Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
  5. ^ "Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 88". AP News. May 12, 2023. Archived from the original on May 12, 2023. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  6. ^ "Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman during Iran hostage crisis, dies at 88". The Washington Post. May 12, 2023.
  7. ^ Kendrick, Eva Walton (April 13, 2018). "Carter, Hodding, III". Mississippi Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  8. ^ "Hodding Carter | Speakers | Landon Lecture Series". Kansas State University. Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  9. ^ "Select Commencement Speakers | GW Libraries". library.gwu.edu. Archived from the original on March 19, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
  10. ^ "Hodding Carter III, newspaper man, member of Carter administration dies. Read about him". The Clarion-Ledger. Retrieved May 12, 2023.
  11. Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. October 2009. p. 5. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on September 25, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2023.
  12. ^ "Chapel Hill news mentioning Carter's new position". Archived from the original on May 29, 2010. Retrieved October 6, 2006.
  13. ISBN 978-1-250-06760-9
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Preceded by
John Reinhardt
 Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
March 25, 1977 – June 30, 1980 		Succeeded by
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