Carter Barron
Carter Barron | |
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| Born | January 30, 1905 |
| Died | November 16, 1950 (aged 45) |
| Occupation | Motion picture executive |
| College football career | |
| Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | |
| Position | Halfback |
| Class | Graduate |
| Career history | |
| College | Georgia Tech (1924–1926) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Carter Tate Barron (January 30, 1905 – November 16, 1950) was a college football player and motion picture executive.
College football
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Carter Barron was one of a trio of football playing brothers for Bill Alexander's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football teams, younger than Red Barron and older than Pat Barron.[1][2] Carter was selected an All-Southern halfback in 1926.[3] A knee injury ultimately ended his football career.[4] Carter also played on the baseball, basketball, and lacrosse teams.[1]
Motion picture executive
[edit]In 1942, he was named Washington representative of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.[1][5]
Amphitheatre
[edit]The Carter Barron Amphitheatre is located in Rock Creek Park of Washington, D. C. The plan was expanded upon by Barron as Vice-Chairman for the Sesquicentennial Commission in 1947 as a way to memorialize the 150th Anniversary of Washington, D. C. as the nation's capital.[4]
Personal life
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Politically a Democrat, Barron was a personal friend of presidents Harry Truman[1] and Franklin D. Roosevelt.[6]
Two of Carter Barron's nieces, Jo Barron Atchison and Alae Risse Lietch, began attending Georgia Tech games when they were young in the 1930s because of tickets sent by Carter Barron. Atchison and Lietch in 2017, were featured in an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about their long standing attendance to Tech Football games started by Carter Barron.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Nationally Mourned Death Of Carter Barron, Distinguished Alumnus, Recent Georgia Tech Homecoming Reunion". Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. 29 (2). 1950.
- ^ "Barron, Carter T., 1905-1950".
- ^ "Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team". The Kingsport Times. November 28, 1926.
- ^ a b "Carter Barron History".
- ^ Call, Steve (March 1, 2009). Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 9781603441001 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Carter T. Barron".
- ^ Sugiura, Ken. "Georgia Tech's 104-year-old fan to be at Saturday's game". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
External links
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Media related to Carter Barron at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1905 births
- 1950 deaths
- American football halfbacks
- All-Southern college football players
- People from Clarkesville, Georgia
- Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football players
- Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets baseball players
- Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's basketball players
- Washington, D.C., Democrats
- People from Washington, D.C.
- American men's basketball players