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By GEORGE BOWLES
A fortnight ago, the past and present political captains of the Commonwealth journeyed to South Boston to pay their last respects to former Gov. William M. Tuck, while editorial writers waxed eloquent in their eulogies.
This was, of course, as it should have been. Tuck was one of the giants of Virginia’s 20th century political history.
A few days after Tuck’s death, however, another distinguished son of the Old Dominion, former state Sen. Stuart Barns Carter of Fincastle, also passed away. But in Carter’s case the editorial writers were silent. His passing was briefly recorded with a few paragraphs on the obituary page in some newspapers. As far as I know, no official notice was taken of his death.
Stuart Carter deserved more.
While Tuck along with then-Senators Mills Godwin and Harry F. Byrd Jr. were still beating the drums for segregation. Carter, by a single heroic vote, broke the back of “Massive Resistance” in Virginia.
And the way he did it is the stuff of legend.
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