John A. Carter

John A. Carter (November 15, 1808 – 1890) was a Virginia lawyer, farmer and politician, who represented Loudoun County, Virginia in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly for two terms each both before and after the American Civil War, as well as in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861. Early and family life Carter was born at Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia in 1808 to Col. Landon Carter III and his second wife, the former Mary Burwell Armistead. Both his parents descended from the First Families of Virginia. After private education locally, he attended boarding school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, then began studies at the University of Virginia but was expelled after a rules violation. He then studied law under Henry St. George Tucker Sr. in Winchester from 1827 until 1829. He married orphan Richardetta Louisa De Butts (1816-1847)(whose guardian was local leader John P. Dulany) in Loudoun County on February 12, 1834. His wife died young, as did their daughter Mary Winn Carter (1838-1839) and an infant son Edgar Marshall Carter, although one son (Confederate Col. Richard Welby Carter (1837-1889)) survived the war but was outlived by this man, his father. Career