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Robert Carter I (c. 1664 – 4 August 1732) was an American planter, merchant, and colonial administrator who served as the acting governor of Virginia from 1726 to 1727. . An agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary, Carter emerged as the wealthiest settler in the British colony of Virginia and received the sobriquet "King" from his contemporaries connoting his autocratic approach and ...
Robert Carter (priest) (1927–2010), Roman Catholic priest and gay rights activist; Robert B. Carter (born 1960), American business executive with FedEx; Robert Brudenell Carter (1828–1918), British physician and ophthalmic surgeon; Robert L. Carter (1917–2012), civil rights activist, NAACP lawyer, and U.S. District Court judge
Robert Carter III (February 28, 1728 – March 10, 1804) was an American planter and politician from the Northern Neck of Virginia. During the colonial period , he sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for roughly two decades.
Carter was born on March 11, 1917, in Caryville, Florida. [2] As part of the Great Migration of southern blacks moving north, his mother Annie Martin Carter took him, when he was six weeks old, and his siblings, to Newark, New Jersey, where his father, Robert L. Carter Sr., worked. [citation needed] However, his father died when he was a year ...
Patricia Roberts Harris (May 31, 1924 – March 23, 1985) was an American politician, diplomat, and legal scholar. She served as the 6th United States secretary of housing and urban development from 1977 to 1979 and as the 13th United States secretary of health and human services [ a ] from 1979 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter .
Robert Wormeley Carter II (January 1, 1792 – October 27, 1861) was a Virginia planter who served multiple terms in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly.In his early and last terms, he represented his native Richmond County in the Virginia House of Delegates (as had his grandfather of the same name), then for eight years represented the counties of the Northern Neck of Virginia in the ...
Robert Merlin Carter (9 March 1942 – 19 January 2016) was an English palaeontologist, stratigrapher and marine geologist. He was professor and head of the School of Earth Sciences at James Cook University in Australia from 1981 to 1998, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and was prominent in promoting anthropogenic climate change denial .
Robert Earl Carter (July 27, 1927 – February 22, 2010) was an American Roman Catholic priest and LGBT rights activist. Early life. Carter was born in Chicago ...