6 linear feet, 7 linear inches, 15 containers

The materials in this collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, resumes, employment applications, invitations, printed materials, and a small amount of administrative records. The materials relates to William Hodding Carter’s service as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. A large quantity of the materials are correspondence and replies for speaking engagements, social invitations, and general correspondence from the public and constituents.

William Hodding Carter III is an American journalist and politician best known for his role as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in President Jimmy Carter’s administration. Carter was born in New Orleans to journalist and publisher William Hodding Carter II, and the former Betty Werlein. He grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, a Mississippi River delta city which is the seat of Washington County, Mississippi. Carter attended Greenville High School and then transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He transferred back to Greenville High School and graduated in 1953. He attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and having graduated summa cum laude in 1957. That same year, he married the former Margaret Ainsworth. They had a son, Hodding Carter IV, and three daughters, Catherine Carter, Margaret Carter, and actress Finn Carter. The couple divorced in 1978, and he remarried Patricia M. Derian, then a human rights official in President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and an author on topics relating to foreign policy, civil rights, and the "New South".

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Series I: William Hodding Carter III Correspondence and Memoranda Files - NAID 586290

Scope and Content: Containers 1-15. This series was opened in 2017. The materials consist of correspondence, invitations, memorandums, resumes, applications, news clippings, and notes. Most of the correspondences consist of congratulation letters on Hodding Carter’s appointment, thank you letters, and invitations received, accepted and regretted by him regarding speaking appearances. The materials also consist of general correspondence from constituents and the general public. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

These papers contain documents restricted in accordance with applicable executive order(s), which governs National Security policies, applicable statutes/agency restrictions, and material which has been closed in accordance with the donor’s deed of gift.

Copyright interest in these papers has been donated to the United States Government. Some of the records may be subject to copyright restrictions (i.e. newspapers, publications, etc.). Researchers should contact the publisher for further information.

Jimmy Carter Library and Museum 

441 Freedom Parkway NE Atlanta GA 30307

Public and Social Speaking Engagements

Carter, William Hodding, III (1935-2023)

Department of State

1977-1981

William Hodding Carter III Correspondence and Memoranda Files

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