Newspaper publisher, businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. In 1905, Carter accepted a job as an advertising salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper in 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager. The newspaper was on the verge of bankruptcy when he decided to buy the competitor paper. He raised additional capital and purchased the Fort Worth Telegram in 1908. Months later, the two newspapers merged into the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The paper had the largest circulation of any newspaper in the South from 1923 until after World War II, serving not just Fort Worth but also West Texas, New Mexico, and western Oklahoma. Due to the success of his newspaper, Carter expanded his media empire with the founding of Texas' first radio station, WBAP, in 1923 and Texas' first television station, WBAP-TV, in 1948, now known as KXAS-TV. Carter used his national influence to help the Fort Worth area attract more industry and government spending. Among the companies he brought to the area were Southern Air Transport (American Airlines), Air Force Plant 4 (Lockheed Martin), the General Motors assembly facility in Arlington, and Bell Aircraft (Bell Helicopter Textron). He got a four-year college (now Texas Tech University) for Lubbock from the Texas state legislature, and he was the first chairman of the Board of Directors. Carter loved western art and assembled an acclaimed collection of paintings and sculptures by Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. To house his collection, his daughter founded the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in 1961. Amon Carter Peak in Big Bend National Park was named after him in recognition of his contributions to the park's development. Amon G. Carter Lake in Bowie, the football stadium at Texas Christian University, Amon Carter High School in Fort Worth, the main auditorium at Texas A&M School of Law, and a few other institutions bear his name.