ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, March 25, 1996 TAG: 9603250133
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
SOURCE: CHRIS RICKETT
L. Wayne Carter, who served for 13 years as the Salem commissioner of the revenue, died Sunday at his home following a long battle with heart disease.
Carter first ran for the commissioner's post in 1976 as an independent, when a special election was held to fill a vacancy left by the death of then-Commissioner of the Revenue J. Luck Richardson. Carter was re-elected to the first of three four-year terms in 1977.
He was president of Salem Sales and Service prior to the 1976 commissioner's race, his first stab at elected office.
His independent candidacies were part of new trend in Salem politics that still exists today.
Carter lost a 1989 re-election bid to Republican Max Brown, a hardware store owner. Both candidates ran a friendly campaign that year, with Brown saying he was "after the job, not Carter."
Carter served in the Navy during World War II and worked as the personnel manager for Leas and McVitty Tannery for 18 years.
Carter was a graduate of Andrew Lewis High School in Salem and attended Virginia Southern College.
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