Carter Barron

{{Short description|American football player and motion picture executive}}

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|birth_date={{Birth date|1905|1|30}}

|birth_place=Clarkesville, Georgia

|death_date={{Death date and age|mf=y|1950|11|16|1905|1|30}}

|death_place=Washington, D. C.

|occupation=Motion picture executive

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|school=Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets|class=Graduate

|pastschools=Georgia Tech (1924–1926)

|currentposition=Halfback

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All-Southern (1926)

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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.{{cite web|url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6k07cc7|title=Barron, Carter T., 1905-1950}} Carter was selected an All-Southern halfback in 1926.{{cite news|title=Alabama Places 4 Men On Newspaper All-Southern Team|newspaper=The Kingsport Times|date=November 28, 1926}} A knee injury ultimately ended his football career. Carter also played on the baseball, basketball, and lacrosse teams.{{cite journal|url=http://issuu.com/gtalumni/docs/1950_29_2/5|title=Nationally Mourned Death Of Carter Barron, Distinguished Alumnus, Recent Georgia Tech Homecoming Reunion|journal=Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine|volume=29|number=2|date=1950}}

Motion picture executive

In 1942, he was named Washington representative of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x1BYWGP93xAC&pg=PA184|title=Selling Air Power: Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II|first=Steve|last=Call|date=1 March 2009|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=9781603441001|via=Google Books}}

Amphitheatre

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/rocr/planyourvisit/cbhistory.htm|title=Carter Barron History}}

Personal life

File:Photograph of First Archivist of the United States R. D. W. Connor Receiving Film "Gone With The Wind" from Senator George of Georgia and Loew's Eastern Division Manager Carter Barron, 1941.tif.]]

Politically a Democrat, Barron was a personal friend of presidents Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt.{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/556/000055391/|title=Carter T. Barron|publisher=}}

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 [https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georgia-tech-104-year-old-fan-saturday-game/2Hl0cYtQk0B6G5JcmiJCCN/ article] in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about their long standing attendance to Tech Football games started by Carter Barron.{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georgia-tech-104-year-old-fan-saturday-game/2Hl0cYtQk0B6G5JcmiJCCN/|title=Georgia Tech's 104-year-old fan to be at Saturday's game|last=Sugiura|first=Ken|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|language=English|access-date=2020-04-12}}