death_date death_place children birth_place image_size party name footnotes birth_date spouse image article_title birth_name occupation
4 april 1972 greenville , mississippi , usa william hodding iii philip dutartre thomas hennen carter . hammond , louisiana united states . 175px democrat hodding carter `` , jr. '' a staunch democrat who opposed huey p. long 3 february 1907 betty werlein , 1911 -- 2000 . hodding_carter ms.jpg , _ ii , _ of_greenville , _ hodding carter
 william hodding carter , ii journalist ; writer
hodding carter

william hodding carter , ii -lrb- february 3 , 1907 -- april 4 , 1972 -rrb- , was a southern u.s. progressive journalist and author .
carter was born in hammond , louisiana , the largest community in tangipahoa parish , in southeastern louisiana .
his parents were william hodding carter i , and the former irma dutartre .
among other distinctions in his career , carter was a nieman fellow .
he died in greenville , mississippi , of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five .
he is interred in the greenville cemetery .
