Tommy Carter in his lab with bags of soybeans he developed just before he retired from North Carolina State in 2019. Carter’s family has roots in Oglethorpe County dating to the 1800s. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Tom Carter displays a fish he caught while growing up in Oglethorpe County. He was his senior class president at OCHS and worked at The Oglethorpe Echo. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Tommy Carter was involved with science from a young age. His father was Oglethorpe County’s agricultural extension agent and his uncle was a farmer in Clarke County.
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