Amon G. Carter, Sr. (December 11, 1879 - June 23, 1955) is the creator and publisher of Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known national reinforcer for Fort Worth, Texas. An inheritance in his will was used to create the Fort Worth's Amon Carter Museum, founded by his daughter, Ruth Carter Stevenson, in January 1961.
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Biography
Carter was born Giles Amon Carter in Crafton, Texas (he will change his name as an adult). After his mother died in 1892, he moved from the remaining family, to Bowie, Texas, where he supported himself with various side jobs. At the job, he learns selling skills, and becomes a traveling salesman as a youth. The inhabitants of Bowie remember that he was one of the original "bread & bread boys" selling sandwiches that were represented as "chicken" for passengers at the train station during the depression. The sandwich, he thought, was really made of rabbits the boys had hunted for. To this day Bowie has Chicken & amp; Rotary Festival every October.
Publisher
In May 1905, Carter accepted a job as an ad space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in the city. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager. The Star lost money, and was in danger of bankruptcy when Carter had a bold idea: to raise additional money and buy the main competition of his newspaper, Fort Worth Telegram . In November 1908, Star Star purchased Telegram for $ 100,000, and two newspapers merged on January 1, 1909 into Fort Worth Star-Telegram >.
From 1923 to after World War II, Star-Telegram has the largest newspaper circulation in the South, serving not only Fort Worth but also West Texas, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma. The paper created the WBAP, the oldest radio station in Fort Worth, in 1922; and followed it with Texas's first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948.
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Carter risked this money and power to become a celebrity as a national spokesman for Fort Worth and West Texas (Carter popularized the description of Fort Worth as "Where the West Begins", a phrase that still appears daily on the front page of Star-Telegram). During the 1920s and 1930s, Carter symbolized the image of a Texas cowboy in the national mind: an unflappable preacher, gambler, and drinker, was generous with his money and quickly drew six of his shooters. Major magazines like Time and Saturday Evening Post contain Carter's profile, and he counts Will Rogers and Walter Winchell among his friends. Well-publicized hospitality from Shady Oak Farm near Lake Worth is open to all the big celebrities or businesspeople passing through Fort Worth.
Carter uses his national stage to turn business and government spending for his home territory. From the state legislature of Texas, he got a four-year course (now Texas Tech University) for Lubbock, where he was the first chairman of the Board of Directors. He persuaded Southern Air Transport (now American Airlines) to move its headquarters from Dallas to nearby Fort Worth. Some oil companies moved or defended their headquarters in Fort Worth after a private intervention by Carter. In addition, Carter was also influential in obtaining Fort Worth's 4th Air Force development plant (now the headquarters of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics) and relocation of Bell Aircraft (now Bell Helicopter Textron).
Carter's attitude underestimated Dallas, Texas's bigger, richer, richer Fort Worth neighbor. One of Carter's most famous stories is that he'll take lunch when he goes to Dallas so he does not have to spend money there. He was also quoted as saying "Fort Worth is the place where the West begins... and Dallas is where the East fighters come out."
After World War II, Carter stopped barnstorming on behalf of Fort Worth. In 1953, he suffered the first heart attack; the last one, two years later, is fatal. On June 23, 1955 he died in Fort Worth, Texas. She is buried at the Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Fort Worth.
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Legacy
- The Texas Christian University in Fort Worth named the Amon G. Carter Stadium football stadium to recognize Carter's contribution on campus.
- The main entrance of Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, Texas is named Amon G. Carter Plaza. The Plaza includes a university seal statue, with a seven-jet fountain background and a horse-drawn statue, entitled Ride to the Sunset .
- The former Fort Worth commercial airport (which is left may be seen north of 183 before you enter Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and the current corporate headquarters location of America), named as Amon G. Carter Airfield. The airport was later converted into the Greater Southwest International Airport before the operation was transferred to DFW in 1974.
- After the demolition of the airport, in 1979, the main runway was converted into a city street and was named Amon Carter Boulevard. Today is the address of KXAS, Carter TV station was established.
- Amon Carter Peak in Big Bend National Park is named in honor of Carter's contribution to the establishment of the park.
- The main auditorium at Texas A & amp; M School of Law is named after Amon Carter. That is the gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation.
- The South Air Transport Terminal at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport, now Atlantic Flight, is dedicated to Amon Carter in 1933.
- The school board changed the name of Riverside High School to Amon Carter Riverside High School in honor of the Fort Worth civilian leader. YMCA Camp Carter (YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth) is located in Fort Worth.
- Amon G. Carter Lake in Bowie, Texas, also named Mr. Carter.
References
Further reading
- Flemmons, Jerry (1998). Amon: The Texas Playing Cowboy for America . Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 0-89672-406-9. Ã,
External links
- Carter, Amon G., Sr. in The Handbook of Texas Online.
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