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Hodding Carter III

American journalist (1935–2023)

Hodding Carter III

Carter in 2006

In office
March 25, 1977 – June 30, 1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byJohn E. Reinhardt
Succeeded byWilliam J. Dyess
In office
March 25, 1977 – June 30, 1980
PresidentJimmy Carter
Preceded byRobert Anderson
Succeeded byWilliam J. Dyess
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

W. Hodding Carter, III

Major Works

  • The Reagan Years (1988)
  • The South Strikes Back (1959)

Biography

Born in 1935 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. He graduated from Greenville High School in 1953. He received his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1957. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps for two years after graduation. He returned to Greenville to work on the family’s newspaper, Delta Democrat-Times.

His father, Hodding Carter Sr., was a Pulitzer Prize winner and chief editor and publisher of this Greenville, Mississippi, based newspaper,

W. Hodding Carter, III currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where in 2005 he became at professor of Leadership and Public Policy at University of North Carolina at the age of 70. Previously, he was president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a reporter and editor at the Delta-Democrat Times of Greenville, Mississippi, a correspondent for PBS’s Frontline, BBC, and The New York Times, and contributed articles to major U.S. newspa

W. Hodding Carter III

W. Hodding Carter III is an award-winning journalist, educator, public official, and civic leader. Born in New Orleans, raised in Greenville, Mississippi, and educated at Princeton, he began his journalistic career in 1959 as a reporter with his family’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, and went on to become its managing editor and associate publisher. During his tenure, he was active in the civil rights movement both editorially and in political action. He worked for two successful presidential campaigns, Lyndon B. Johnson’s in 1964, and Jimmy Carter’s in 1976. President Carter appointed him Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and spokesman for the State Department, where he became the public face for the administration during the Iran hostage crisis. Hodding Carter went on to a national career in the media as television commentator and newspaper correspondent on public affairs, working with ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS, BBC, and The New York Times, among other leading media, and in the process earning four national Emmy Awar

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