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In 1983, Carter sought a state senatorial comeback but was blocked by incumbent]Democratic Senator Richard Grady Neeson, who had unseated Shehee in 1979 after her single four-year term.<ref>State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Primary election returns, October 1983.</ref>​

In 1983, Carter sought a state senatorial comeback but was blocked by incumbent]Democratic Senator Richard Grady Neeson, who had unseated Shehee in 1979 after her single four-year term.<ref>State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Primary election returns, October 1983.</ref>​

==Death and legacy==\

==Death and legacy==

Athe time of his death in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven, Carter was again seeking public office. He was challenging two-term state Representative Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell in District 4 in southwestern Shreveport. Waddell subsequently became a judges of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District Court. Carter had left a candidate forum early. An off-duty [[firefighter]] found Carter slumped in his idling car parked off Hollywood Avenue in Shreveport. He had died of a [[heart attack]].<ref name=death/> Mrs. Carter, whose first and maiden names are unavailable, was the district supervisor of the Louisiana Tourist Commission.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' March 3, 1969, p. 5.</ref>​

Athe time of his death in 1987 at the age of fifty-seven, Carter was again seeking public office. He was challenging two-term state Representative Robert P. "Bobby" Waddell in District 4 in southwestern Shreveport. Waddell subsequently became a judges of the Louisiana 1st Judicial District Court. Carter had left a candidate forum early. An off-duty [[firefighter]] found Carter slumped in his idling car parked off Hollywood Avenue in Shreveport. He had died of a [[heart attack]].<ref name=death/> Mrs. Carter, whose first and maiden names are unavailable, was the district supervisor of the Louisiana Tourist Commission.<ref>''Minden Press-Herald,'' March 3, 1969, p. 5.</ref>​