Walter C. Carter

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

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|name = Walter Carter

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|riding = St. John's West

|parliament = Canadian

|term_start = 9 September 1968

|term_end = 3 September 1975

|predecessor = Richard Cashin

|successor = John Crosbie

|birth_name = Walter Carmichael Carter

|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1929|4|8}}

|birth_place = Greenspond, Dominion of Newfoundland

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2002|1|20|1929|4|8}}

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Walter Carmichael Carter (8 March 1929 – 20 January 2002) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Greenspond, Newfoundland, he was educated there and at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was elected to St. John's City Council in 1961. Carter was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in 1962 and was deputy mayor of St. John's from 1966 to 1968.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/835 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |pages=368–69 |title=Carter, Walter Carmichael}} He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of St. John's West in the 1968 federal election. A Progressive Conservative, he was re-elected in 1972 and 1974. After resigning from the House of Commons to seek provincial office, he tried to return to federal politics but was defeated in 1979 (as a Progressive Conservative) and 1984 (as a Liberal). He was again elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly and was Minister of Fisheries in the cabinets of Frank Moores, Brian Peckford and Clyde Wells.{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=16081|nolist=yes}} He retired in 1996.{{cite web |url=http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2002/exec/0121n02.htm |title=Premier offers condolences to family and friends of Walter Carter |publisher=Government of Newfoundland and Labrador |date=January 21, 2002}}

His memoir, Never a Dull Moment (Creative Publishers, {{ISBN|1-894294-00-9}}), was published in 1998.{{cite web |url=http://www.creativebookpublishing.ca/authorbios/index.cfm?aid=23 |title=Walter Carter |publisher=Creative Book Publishing |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010220936/http://www.creativebookpublishing.ca/authorbios/index.cfm?aid=23 |archivedate=October 10, 2006 |url-status=dead}}