John Carter (ambassador)

John Carter

Guyanese Ambassador to the United States from Guyana to United States
In office 000000001966-07-18-0000July 18, 1966 – 000000001970-07-11-0000July 11, 1970
Succeeded by	Rahman Baccus Gajraj
Guyanese High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from Guyana to United Kingdom
In office 000000001970-01-01-00001970 – 000000001975-01-01-00001975
Guyanese Ambassador to China from Guyana to China
In office 000000001976-01-01-00001976 – 000000001979-01-01-00001979
Preceded by	David Arthur Singh
Succeeded by	Cecil Pollydore
Guyanese High Commissioner to Jamaica from Guyana to Jamaica
In office 000000001981-01-01-00001981 – 000000001983-01-01-00001983
Personal details
Born	000000001919-01-27-0000January 27, 1919 Cane Grove Village on the East Coast of Demerara.
Died	February 23, 2005(2005-02-23) (aged 86) Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
Spouse(s)	Lady Sarah Lou Harris Carter, former New Yorker and radio personality He was survived by Sara Lou, their two sons, and the two daughters of his first marriage, which ended in divorce in the early 1950s.
Father	pharmacist, in what was then British Guiana.
Alma mater	Queen's College Georgetown . From 1939 to 1942, he read law at London University and attended Middle Temple.

John Carter was a Guyanese politician, lawyer and diplomat.

Career

From 1939 to 1945, during the second world war he studied and taught law in London and his legal expertise became invaluable on numerous discrimination cases to the League of Coloured Peoples. In 1944, he became involved in a case of an African-American soldier serving in Britain who had been condemned to death for rape by a US military court. In the end, the sentence was commuted.

In 1945 he returned to Guyana and established a law practice.
To his mandatories belonged Forbes Burnham and Desmond Hoyte.
In 1948 he became the youngest member of the colony's legislative council.
In 1952, he founded the United Democratic Party (British Guiana).
In 1957 Forbes Burnham convinced him to became the first chairman of the People's National Congress (Guyana).
In 1962 he became a Queens Counsel.
In 1966 he was knighted.
Guyana was a memeber of the Non-Aligned Movement.
On June 28, 1966 he was appointed first ambassador to Washington, D. C. where he was accreditated from 000000001966-07-18-0000July 18, 1966 till 000000001970-07-11-0000July 11, 1970 and was concurrently accreditated to the Headquarters of the United Nations and was High commissioner (Commonwealth) in Ottawa (Canada).
From 1970 to 1976 he was High commissioner (Commonwealth) in London, and was concurrently accredited in Paris (France), Bonn (West Germany), Moscow (Soviet Union) and Belgrade (Yugoslavia).

While he was High commissioner (Commonwealth) in London, the government of Forbes Burnham nationalised a sugar company from Booker Group.^[1]
From 000000001976-01-01-00001976 to 1979 he was ambassador in Beijing with accredition in Tokyo and Pyongyang (North Korea).^[2]
From 1981 till his retirement in 1983 he was High commissioner (Commonwealth) in Kingston, Jamaica.
In 1983 he settled with his with his second wife, Sara Lou, in Washington, D.C..

↑ Tracy J. Prince, Culture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity, p. 146
↑ Jet (magazine), 000000001979-11-29-0000November 29, 1979,
↑ Guyana Graphic, 01.06.2012, ,The Guardian, obituary, edited by Lawrence Goldman, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 p. 192 f.

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