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Colonel Robert Carter I (c. 1664 – 4 August 1732) was a planter, merchant, and government official and administrator who served as Acting Governor of Virginia, Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and President of the Virginia Governor’s Council.
Robert „King“ Carter (* 1663 in Lancaster County, Virginia; † 4. August 1732 in Lancaster County, Virginia) war ein Kolonist in der damaligen Colony of Virginia, aus der nach der Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten (1776) die US-Bundesstaaten Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee und Ohio hervorgingen.
22. Dez. 2021 · Robert Carter, also known as Robert “King” Carter, was a land baron, Speaker of the House of Burgesses, treasurer of the colony, and a member of the governor’s Council in Virginia. He inherited land from his father and his half-brothers and accumulated more by patents and purchases. He served as president of the Council from 1726 to 1727 and died in 1732.
The Diary, Correspondence, and Papers of Robert "King" Carter of Virginia, 1701-1732. Transcribed, Edited, and Annotated by Edmund Berkeley, Jr. This site includes transcriptions of the diary, correspondence, and papers of the richest and most important man of his day in Virginia, who owned at his death at least 300,000 acres containing many ...
A portrait of Robert Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in Virginia, in the 1690s or 1700s. The portrait shows him wearing a red jacket and waistcoat, a wig with a ponytail, and a window with a view of trees behind him.
Object Details. As befit his nickname, Robert “King” Carter was a powerful eighteenth-century Virginia politician. First elected to the colony’s House of Burgesses in 1691, the “King” served as Speaker of the House (1696–98; 1699), treasurer (1699–1705), and acting governor of the colony (1726–27).
Robert „King“ Carter war ein Kolonist in der damaligen Colony of Virginia, aus der nach der Unabhängigkeitserklärung der Vereinigten Staaten die US-Bundesstaaten Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee und Ohio hervorgingen.
