General Mary Coleman Carter

They had three children Josephine Stoney Carter (b. August 1, 1938), Marshall Nichols Carter (b. April 23, 1940) and Mary Coleman Carter (b. March 18, 1945).
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Upon graduation from the USMA, General Carter was assigned Special Liaison Duty as First Military Observer with the United States Naval Academy on the U.S.S. Wyoming from June 22 to August 26, 1931.From September 14, 1931 to April 11, 1932, he was a Battery Officer in the 12th Coast Artillery at Fort Monroe, Virginia.From Virginia, General Carter was next stationed as Battery Officer and Battalion Adj. for the 64th Coast Artillery, (Anti,Aircraft) at Fort Shafter, Honolulu, HI from June 1, 1932 to March 23, 1935.While completing his Masters Degree at MIT on June 9, 1936, General Carter worked as an instructor in the Department of Natural & Experimental Philosophy at the USMA from April 21, 1935 to July 9, 1939.

He completed the Battery Officers Course at Fort Monroe, Virginia as a student officer at the Coast Artillery School from September 8, 1939 to February 1, 1940.Upon completion of this course, General Carter served as an instructor there from February 1940 to August 1940.Additionally, General Carter was a student instructor at the Stereoscopic Height Finders School detail through May 1940.In June 1940, General Carter was in Washington, D.C. attending the Student Naval Optical School.

In August 1940, he went to Quarry Heights in the Panama Canal Zone and served as the Battery Officer for the 73rd Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft).In July 1941, while stationed at the Panama Canal Zone, General Carter became the Organizer and Director of the Enlisted Specialist School, a position he held until December 1941.In December 1941, he became Assistant ACofS, G-3 for the Panama Coast Artillery Command.

Shortly after Pearl Harbor and for the duration of World War 2, General Carter was ordered back to Washington, D.C. where he was a Staff Officer assigned to the Operations Division War Department General Staff, (OPDWDGS), through June 1945.

In the Spring of 1945, General Carter was in Paris, France for the celebration of V,E Day.For a year and a half, from July 1945 through January 1946, he was posted in Chungking and Shanghai, where he was Deputy and Assistant Chief of Staff (G-5) at China Theater headquarters.

From January 1946 through March 1946, General Carter was stationed in Washington, D.C. as the Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War.Upon completion of this duty, he was appointed Special Representative for General George C. Marshall to "hold General Marshall's horse for the year he was in China[4]", while General Marshall served as a Presidential Messenger to China from March 1946 through January 1947.

In the course of his military career, General Carter was a key staff assistant to General George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff.
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Two years later, in March 1949, General Carter became Deputy to the Ambassador for Military Assistance Programs for Europe with station at the American Embassy in London.Concurrently, he served as Deputy Chairman, European Correlations Committee.In these capacities, General Carter held the personal rank of Minister.

In March 1949, he went to London, England as Minister of the American Embassy, Deputy Chairman of the European Correlation Committee for Military Assistance to work on military assistance programs for Europe.He returned from Europe and became a Department of State student at the National War College from August 1949 to June 1950.

Following a short tour as Commander of the 138th Anti-Aircraft Group in Japan, in 1950 General Carter was recalled to Washington by General Marshall, to become Director of the Executive Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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General Carter served in this capacity during the Korean War under General Marshall and his successor, Mr. Lovett until November 1952.
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From 1952 to 1955, General Carter was at Fort Richardson, Alaska as Deputy Commanding General of the 71st Infantry Division.His next post was Fort Sheridan, Illinois, where from June 1955 until June 1956, he was Commanding General of the Fifth Region, Army Anti-Aircraft Command.

For the next five months, he served as Deputy Commanding General of the Army Anti-Aircraft Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado, leaving this assignment to become Chief of Staff of the newly formed Continental Air Defense Command at Ent Air Force Base from October 1956 until September 1957.When this command was expanded into the North American Air Defense Command in September 1957, General Carter also became Chief of Staff of this two-nation unified command, the first command of this type in the United Stated.While serving there, he was a prominent member of an informal group called the Range Riders, whose members regularly rode horseback around Pike's Peak.He also enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, ice skating and skiing.

General Carter's final two assignments before his appointment as deputy director of the CIA in April 1962 were as Chief of Staff of the 8th Army in Korea from December 1959 to January 1961 and commander of the Army Air Defense Center and Air Defense School at Fort Bliss, Texas from March 1961 to March 1962.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated General Carter to be Director of the National Security Agency, a position which he held from 1965 to 1969.General Carter was known in the military and intelligence communities as an efficient but relaxed and informal "feet-on-the-desk" type of officer with a vast and detailed knowledge of world figures and events.

In 1969, after four years of service as director of the National Security Agency, General Carter retired from the Army.He had lived since then in Colorado Springs.From 1969 until 1985, he was president of the George C. Marshall Foundation in Lexington, Virginia.

Mary Carter

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