Carter Braxton (September 10, 1736 – October 10, 1797) was a signer of the
United States Declaration of Independence, as well as a merchant, planter, and
Virginia politician. A grandson of
Robert “King” Carter, one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners and slaveholders in the Old Dominion, Carter Braxton was active in Virginia's legislature for more than 25 years, generally allied with
Landon Carter,
Benjamin Harrison,
Edmund Pendleton and other conservative slaveholders.