Hodding Carter III Wife: Meet Patricia Ann O’Brien

Patricia Ann O’Brien is an author and journalist who was married to Hodding Carter III an American journalist and politician.

The couple connected during a reunion at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and were married from 2019 until his death in 2023.

Hodding Carter III died on May 11, 2023, at the age of 88, at a retirement home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from a series of strokes.

Catherine Carter Sullivan, his daughter, confirmed his death on Thursday, May 11 2023,  in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Hodding Carter III  served as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Jimmy Carter.

Hodding Carter III  was the editor and publisher of his family’s newspaper, the Delta Democrat-Times, in Greenville, Mississippi, before moving to Washington in 1977.

Hodding Carter III served as a spokesman for the US State Department during the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries.