William Blount Carter

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William Blount Carter (October 22, 1792 – April 17, 1848) was an American politician from Elizabethton, Tennessee. He served as a colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812. In Tennessee, Carter sat in the state House of Representatives and the state Senate, and he presided over the 1834 state constitutional convention. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Tennessee’s 1st district, and served from March 4, 1835 to March 3, 1841. He started his national service as an Anti-Jacksonian and later was a Whig. Carter owned slaves. He died in Elizabethton and is buried in Carter Cemetery there. He was the uncle of General Samuel P. Carter and Congressman Nathaniel G. Taylor. Another nephew, William Blount Carter (1820–1902), was a Southern Unionist who helped lead the East Tennessee bridge burnings during the Civil War.