Carter family of Tennessee

Members of the Carter family were "among the earliest settlers of Tennessee" and their descendants became "one of the most illustrious families in the state."


 * John Carter of Watauga Association
 * Landon C. Carter, Revolutionary War soldier, namesake of Carter County, Tennessee while Elizabethton is named for his wife Elizabeth Maclin
 * U.S. Representative William Blount Carter
 * Mary Carter
 * U.S. Representative Nathaniel Green Taylor
 * Tennessee governor Alf Taylor
 * Tennessee governor and U.S. Senator Robert Love Taylor
 * Alfred Moore Carter
 * Union Army officer Samuel Perry Carter
 * Rev. William Blount Carter
 * Secretary of Arizona Territory James Patton Taylor Carter