Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Carter, George Robert December 28, 1866 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Editor George F. Nellist

GEORGE ROBERT CARTER, Financier and Ex-Governor. Public service for the 
Territory of Hawaii has claimed most of the career of George Robert Carter, 
former territorial senator, secretary and governor.
  Although he began his business life immediately at the completion of his 
college course in Yale, and was markedly successful in all of his commercial 
activities, he was allowed but a brief period of 12 years to concentrate upon 
his own affairs before being called to governmental duties.
  After serving a preliminary apprenticeship with the Seattle National Bank, 
in 1895 he became cashier of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., the firm of which his 
father had once been senior partner. He was one of the organizers and the 
manager of the Hawaiian Trust Co. from 1898 to 1902. He also aided in the 
organization of the Hawaiian Fertilizer Co., and was its managing director 
from 1900 to 1902, during the period of its financial distress. When it was 
made stable he retired from its directorship.
  In 1901 his governmental duties began, when he was sent to the Hawaiian 
senate. The following year he became secretary of the Territory, and from 1903 
to 1907 was governor of Hawaii.
  Mr. Carter enjoyed a close friendship with the late Theodore Roosevelt. When 
only 36 he was sent to Washington, D.C., as unofficial messenger to lay 
important matters of territorial government before the President. So impressed 
was Roosevelt with this young man from Hawaii, that for years he sought his 
advice upon all matters having to do with the Territory and its administration.
  It was President Roosevelt who appointed Mr. Carter secretary of the 
Territory, and later named him governor, and throughout the late President’s 
public career in the White House he depended very largely upon the word of Mr. 
Carter on Hawaiian affairs.
  Like Roosevelt, one of Mr. Carter’s hobbies has always been matters 
historical. He is a member of the Hawaiian Historical Society, the New England 
Historical Genealogical Society, and is now engaged in historical studies. For 
years he has been collecting and perfecting a private Hawaiian library.
  Although retired, Mr. Carter is still director of C. Brewer & Co., a member 
of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, Hawaiian Mission Children’s 
Society, Social Science Association, Navy League of the United States, St. 
Anthony Club and India House, the University Club of New York, and holds 
memberships in the Pacific and University Clubs of Honolulu.
  He was born in Honolulu, December 28, 1866. His father was the late Henry A. 
P. Carter, former Hawaiian Minister to Washington D.C., and a distinguished 
statesman. Sybil Augusta (Judd) Carter was his mother, and the family was 
descended from Rev. Thomas Carter, an early settler in Woburn, Mass.
  In 1892 Mr. Carter married Helen Strong of New York, and their children are 
Mrs. W. E. Bogardus, Mrs. V. O. Dyer and George Robert Carter, Jr., now a 
student in Yale University.



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