Ten years later he sold that land to Houston—it is now Hobby Airport. The elder Carter had six children total, and two of the other homes on Courtlandt were built by families his daughters ...

His father, like generations of Carter men before him, was a cotton farmer who did not graduate high school. But the elder Carter was thrifty and operated a successful general store. When the ...

Carter worked the land throughout the Great Depression, but it was owned by the elder Carter, who employed the surrounding Black tenant farmers during the era of Jim Crow segregation. Carter wrote ...

Earl employed Black tenant farming families. The elder Carter also owned a store in Plains and was a local civic and political leader. Lillian was a nurse and she delivered Rosalynn. The property ...

In a Mayflower Hotel apartment in Washington lay Carter Glass, dean of the U.S. Senate. Now 87, the distinguished senior Senator from Virginia was frail and silent, enfeebled by age and long illness.