14 Facts About Douglass Cater

In 1982, Douglass Cater became the 22nd president of Washington College.

Douglass Cater retired to Montgomery, Alabama in 1991 and died in 1995.

Douglass Cater was born in Montgomery, Alabama on August 24,1923, to Nancy Chesnutt Cater and Silas Douglass Cater Sr.

Douglass Cater's father was a local elected official, Alabama State Senator, and lawyer.

Douglass Cater was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.

In 1950, Douglass Cater became a journalist for The Reporter, serving as the Washington editor and the national affairs editor.

Between 1964 and 1968, Douglass Cater served as a Special Assistant to the President in the Johnson administration.

Major legislation that Douglass Cater helped pass included the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which provided direct federal funding for public education, and the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

Douglass Cater left the White House in 1968 to serve as a domestic advisor for Hubert Humphrey's 1968 presidential campaign.

In 1970, Douglass Cater joined the Aspen Institute as a senior fellow.

Later that decade after Robert Orville Anderson purchased The Observer, Douglass Cater became the publication's vice chairman.

Douglass Cater became the president of Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland, in 1982.

Douglass Cater defended the institution of the small American liberal arts college in the press.

Douglass Cater retired to Montgomery, Alabama in 1991 and died four years later, on September 15,1995, from pulmonary fibrosis at the guest house at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.