Jesse Carter was an American state legislator, mail contractor, and state militia officer in Tampa, Florida, as well as a school co-founder. He was a Democrat.
Carter was a commanding officer dealing with "Indian disturbances". As a state official, he was involved with provisioning Tampa during the Seminole Wars. He represented the 11th Senatorial District.
Carter's home was where the University of Tampa is now located. He built a schoolhouse for his daughter.
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- Picking Up the Pieces: Tampa 1848-1853 - USF Scholar Commons by C Brown Jr · 1999
- "United States Congressional Serial Set". U.S. Government Printing Office. July 6, 1887 – via Google Books.
- Florida. Legislature. House (1881). Journal ... p. 296.
- Florida. Legislature. Senate (1845). Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of Florida at the ... Session ... The State. p. 3.
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- "Sape A. Zylstra Collection of Tampa Architectural Slides". University of South Florida Libraries Digital Collections. Archived from the original on 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2020-02-28. Retrieved 2021-01-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "Old Schoolhouse Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.
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