William Hodding Carter III (born April 7, 1935) is an American journalist and politician. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration. Life and career Carter was born in New Orleans to journalist and publisher William Hodding Carter, II (1907–1972), and the former Betty Werlein (1910–2000). He grew up in Greenville, Mississippi, a Mississippi River delta city which is the seat of Washington County, Mississippi. Carter attended Greenville High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He ultimately returned to Greenville and graduated in 1953. He then attended Princeton University, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1957. That same year, he married the former Margaret Ainsworth. They had a son, Hodding Carter IV (born 1962), and three daughters, Catherine Carter, Margaret Carter, and actress Finn Carter (born 1960). The couple divorced in 1978, and Carter that same year married Patricia M. Derian, a human rights official in the Carter administration and an author on topics relating to foreign policy, civil rights, and the "New South". Carter has a brother, Philip Dutartre Carter (born 1939), former publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, of Greenville, the newspaper started by their father and later publisher of the Vieux Carré Courier and financier of the weekly paper Gambit, both of New Orleans. Another brother, Thomas Hennen Carter (1945–1964), killed himself while playing Russian roulette. After Princeton, Carter served in the United States Marine Corps for two years. In 1959, he began working for the Delta Democrat-Times as a reporter. He was thereafter the paper's managing editor and associate publisher. He covered, among many topics, the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of the Mississippi Republican Party, particularly under its chairman, Clarke Reed, a Greenville businessman and personal friend of Carter's despite their political differences. Carter wrote the book The South Strikes Back. He won the Sigma Delta Chi National Profession Journalism Society Award for Editorial Writing in 1961. In the 1960s, Carter was involved in the Civil Rights Movement, both editorially and in political action. In 1968, he co-chaired the "Loyal Democrats of Mississippi" that replaced Mississippi's previously all- white delegation to the Democratic National Convention, but later criticized the Delta Ministry (part of the biracial coalition) in his editorials. In 1964, he worked on Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign, but Johnson and his vice-presidential choice, U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, received