Charles Carter
Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOklahoma
In office November 16, 1907 – March 3, 1927
Preceded by	Constituency established
Succeeded by	Wilburn Cartwright
Constituency	4th district (1907–1915) 3rd district (1915–1927)
Personal details
Born	Charles David Carter (1868-08-16)August 16, 1868 Boggy Depot,Indian Territory, U.S. (nowOklahoma)
Died	April 9, 1929(1929-04-09) (aged 60) Ardmore, Oklahoma, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Ada Wilson Cecile Whittington Jones
Children	4
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Charles David Carter (August 16, 1868 – April 9, 1929) was an American politician who served in theUnited States House of Representatives fromOklahoma's 4th and3rd congressional districts from 1907 to 1927. He was appointed by PresidentWilliam McKinley as Mining Trustee forIndian Territory, which he served as from 1900 to 1904.

Carter was active in theChickasaw Nation and served as its auditor, on the Chickasaw Council, and as superintendent of Chickasaw Schools.

Charles David Carter was born nearBoggy Depot,Choctaw Nation,Indian Territory (nowOklahoma), Carter moved with his father to Mill Creek, a stage stand on the western frontier of theChickasaw Nation, in April 1876. Carter was ofChickasaw andCherokee descent.^[1] He attended the Indian day schools and Chickasaw Manual Training Academy atTishomingo.

Carter was employed on a ranch from 1887 to 1889 and in a mercantile establishment inArdmore, Oklahoma, from 1889 to 1892. He married Ada Gertrude Wilson on December 29, 1891 and they had four children, Stella LeFlore, Italy Cecil, Julia Josephine, and Benjamin Wisnor Carter, Jr. After Ada's death on January 30, 1901, he married Cecile Whittington Jones on January 8, 1911.^[2]

Carter served as auditor of public accounts of the Chickasaw Nation from 1892 to 1894, a member of the Chickasaw Council in 1895, then superintendent of schools of the Chickasaw Nation in 1897. He was appointed mining trustee of Indian Territory by PresidentWilliam McKinley in November 1900 and served four years.^[3]

Carter was Secretary of the first Democratic executive committee of the proposed State of Oklahoma from June to December 1906. Upon the admission of Oklahoma as a State into the Union, he was elected as aDemocrat to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses, serving from November 16, 1907, to March 4, 1927.^[4]

Carter served as chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs (Sixty-fifth Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1926. He was appointed to the State highway commission, serving 1927-1929.

Carter died in Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, on April 9, 1929. He isinterred at Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore.^[5]

• List of Native Americans in the United States Congress

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