{{short description|American politician (1910–1985)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Henry Stuart Carter | image = | state_delegate1 = Virginia | district1 = Washington and Bristol | term_start1 = January 14, 1948 | term_end1 = January 13, 1960 | preceded1 = George M. Warren | succeeded1 = Bradley Roberts | birth_date = September 5, 1910 | birth_place = Big Stone Gap, Virginia, U.S. | death_date = September 17, 1985 | death_place = Bristol, Tennessee, U.S. | resting_place = Mountain View Cemetery | party = Democratic | spouse = | children = | education = University of Virginia (LLB) | occupation = {{hlist|Lawyer|politician}} | branch = United States Army | unit = Counterintelligence Corps | battles = World War II }} '''Henry Stuart Carter''' (September 5, 1910 – September 17, 1985) was a Virginia lawyer, who served part-time for a dozen years representing Bristol and Washington County in the Virginia House of Delegates.<ref>E. Griffith Dodson, The General Assembly of Virginia (1940-1960) p. 512</ref> A member of the Byrd Organization, Carter participated in its Massive Resistance to racial integration.
==Early and family life== Henry Stuart Carter was born on September 5, 1910, on a farm in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, to Ida (née Spacht) and Charles Samuel Carter. His mother was originally from Pennsylvania.<ref>Virginia Birth Records 1912-2014; delayed birth records 1854-1922</ref><ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bristol-herald-courier-henry-s-carter/156458912/ |title=Henry S. Carter, Former Delegate, Dies at Age 75 |date=1985-09-18 |newspaper=Bristol Herald Courier |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-10-03}}{{Open access}}</ref> He was raised in Richmond, Wise County, Virginia with his older brother Charles and younger brother Dale.{{citation needed |date=October 2024}} He attended Fishburne Military School and Bristol High School. He was educated at Emory and Henry College and then at the University of Virginia School of Law, receiving an LL.B. degree in 1935.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="va">{{Cite web |url=https://history.house.virginia.gov/members/9195 |title=Henry Stuart Carter |website=Virginia House of Delegates History |access-date=2025-07-23}}</ref>
==Career== Upon graduating law school and being admitted to the bar, Carter practiced in Bristol, Virginia.<ref name="obit"/> Carter enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in the Counterintelligence Corps during World War II.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="va"/> After the war, he returned to practicing law.<ref name="obit"/>
Carter was a Democrat. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1948, representing Washington County and Bristol together with J. Walter Gray, and replacing George M. Warren. He served until 1960.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="va"/>{{citation needed |date=October 2024 |reason=detail about predecessor}} Keys S. Bordwine replaced Gray as the county's other representative in 1950, and was in turn replaced by Fred C. Buck in the 1955 election. During the Massive Resistance crisis in Virginia, Carter served in the Virginia House of Delegates and supported continued racial segregation, as did other members of the Byrd Organization. However, his cousin of similar name, Virginia State Senator Stuart B. Carter of Fincastle, Virginia, led the moderate faction that respected the Supreme Court's ''Brown'' decisions, and opposed closing of public schools which integrated because of it.{{citation needed |date=June 2025}}
Bristol's Commonwealth Attorney for a dozen years, Bradley Roberts replaced Carter as Bristol's delegate beginning in January 1960, and served together with Buck until both were replaced after the 1963 elections.{{citation needed |date=October 2024}} He was president of Commonwealth Coal Corporation and member of the board of visitors of Emory and Henry College.<ref name="obit"/>
==Personal life== Carter was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as well as both 40 and 8 Elks.<ref name="va"/> He was a member of the State Street United Methodist Church.<ref name="obit"/> He lived on Euclid Avenue in Bristol.<ref name="obit"/>
Carter died on September 17, 1985, in Bristol Memorial Hospital in Bristol, Tennessee.<ref name="obit"/> He was buried in Mountain View Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/bristol-herald-courier-carter-19-sep-19/156459118/ |title=Carter |date=1985-09-19 |newspaper=Bristol Herald Courier/Virginia-Tennessean |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2024-10-03}}{{Open access}}</ref>
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