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September 8, 1934
The Washington Tribune
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Rev. C. C. Carter, a Baptist minister with a criminal history of murder acquittal, multiple trials, and imprisonments, is elected president of Kinston College in North Carolina while serving time in Raleigh prison.
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COLLEGE ELECTS PRISONER PREXY
Man With Varied Career Called to Head Baptist Institution
KINSTON, N. C., (CNS)-The Rev. C. C. Carter has been elected President of Kinston College, a private Baptist institution in this city, and will enter upon his new duties this Fall. According to records, the Rev. Carter has had a checkered, unusual, interesting, and fiction-like career. He has been tried and acquitted for murder; arrested under different aliases, and tried a dozen times in four states for a variety of other crimes, receiving several sentences; and at one time or another has pastored seven churches in six states; once violated parole; is known to police of two countries, and has left a trail of broken hearts in several states.
He was called to the presidency to Kinston College -while yet a prisoner at the State prison at Raleigh.
Mr. Carter claims to hold three degrees from the University of Chicago, an A.B., M.A., and B.D. He has practiced law in Chicago and pastored in South Bend, Indiana; Benton Harbor, Michigan; and Chicago. He served in the famous Eighth Illinois National Guard having seen service both on the Mexican Border and in France. He has been married twice, his second marriage being annulled, because he has not been divorced or legally separated from his first wife.
Man With Varied Career Called to Head Baptist Institution
KINSTON, N. C., (CNS)-The Rev. C. C. Carter has been elected President of Kinston College, a private Baptist institution in this city, and will enter upon his new duties this Fall. According to records, the Rev. Carter has had a checkered, unusual, interesting, and fiction-like career. He has been tried and acquitted for murder; arrested under different aliases, and tried a dozen times in four states for a variety of other crimes, receiving several sentences; and at one time or another has pastored seven churches in six states; once violated parole; is known to police of two countries, and has left a trail of broken hearts in several states.
He was called to the presidency to Kinston College -while yet a prisoner at the State prison at Raleigh.
Mr. Carter claims to hold three degrees from the University of Chicago, an A.B., M.A., and B.D. He has practiced law in Chicago and pastored in South Bend, Indiana; Benton Harbor, Michigan; and Chicago. He served in the famous Eighth Illinois National Guard having seen service both on the Mexican Border and in France. He has been married twice, his second marriage being annulled, because he has not been divorced or legally separated from his first wife.
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Curiosity
Personal Triumph
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Triumph
Crime Punishment
What keywords are associated?
Prisoner President
Checkered Career
Baptist College
Criminal Past
Kinston College
What entities or persons were involved?
Rev. C. C. Carter
Where did it happen?
Kinston, N. C.
Story Details
Key Persons
Rev. C. C. Carter
Location
Kinston, N. C.
Story Details
The Rev. C. C. Carter, with a checkered career including trial and acquittal for murder, multiple arrests and sentences for crimes under aliases, pastoring churches in various states, parole violation, and police records in two countries, is elected president of Kinston College while imprisoned at the State prison in Raleigh.