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Sen. Curry Carter
Former State Senator Curry Carter, 78, of Staunton, died May 15, 1970 at the Oak Hill Nursing Home. His wife Constance died on May 11.
Sen. Carter represented the 22nd Senatorial District in the General Assembly from 1948 to 1964 and had been in active law practice in Staunton until recently when he entered the nursing home. He was elected to the City Council in 1936 and later was named mayor.
He was a native of Rappahannock County, son of the late French Pendleton Carter and Judith Terrier Miller Carter. He was a graduate of Augusta Military Academy and Hampton-Sydney College and a veteran of both world wars.
In World War I he was a second lieutenant in the field artillery and in World War II, after initially acting as coordinator of Staunton’s volunteer civil defense organization, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served in Italy with the 5th and 9th Armies as a member of the Judge Advocate’s Corps. For many years he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind.
In the General Assembly Mr. Carter was chairman of the State Senate’s Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing Committee at the time he completed his 16 year’s service. He was also a member of the committees on Finance, Courts of Justice, Public Institutions and Education,
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