Carter Barron

Carter Tate Barron (1905 to 1950) was an American college football player who later worked as a motion picture executive. He was one of three football-playing brothers at Georgia Tech under coach Bill Alexander, younger than Red Barron and older than Pat Barron, and was selected an All-Southern halfback in 1926. A knee injury ended his football career, and he also played baseball, basketball and lacrosse for the school. In 1942 he became Washington representative of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is remembered in the capital by the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park, which memorialised the 150th anniversary of Washington, D.C. as the national capital under a plan he advanced as vice-chairman of the Sesquicentennial Commission in 1947.