Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

Republican · GA-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Earl LeRoy "Buddy" Carter is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 1st congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Carter was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2009 to 2014.

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Record of service

In office: 11.6 years
First took office: 2015 (6 terms)
Seniority: 133 of 437 by time served
Age: 68

District offices

Savannah, GA · 912-352-0101
Brunswick, GA · 912-265-9010

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$27.3M

2020

$30.4M

2021

$32.3M

2022

$31.3M

2023

$30.8M

2024

$27.4M

2025

$35.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $13.5M – $57.8M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $13.5M – $57.8M
Since 2019: +$8.3M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 42 assets reported

Guardian Point Capital$5.0M – $25.0M

Ameris Bank$1.0M – $5.0M

Mass Mutual 401(k) ⇒ Comstock (Invesco)$1.0M – $5.0M

Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account ⇒ Eaton Vance Large-Cap Value Fund Class A (EHST$1.0M – $5.0M

Stifel ⇒ Ameris Bancorp (ABCB)$1.0M – $5.0M

Stifel ⇒ US Treasury Bill$1.0M – $5.0M

Mass Mutual 401(k) ⇒ MM S&P 500 Index (Northern Trust)$500k – $1.0M

Mass Mutual 401(k) ⇒ Whole Life Insurance Policy$500k – $1.0M

Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account ⇒ MainStay Large Cap Growth Fund Class A (MLAAX)$500k – $1.0M

South State Bank$250k – $500k

Mass Mutual 401(k) ⇒ MM S&P Md Cp Indx (Nrtn Tr)$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account ⇒ Kayne Anderson SM Quality Val$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account ⇒ Neuberger Berman Intl ADR$250k – $500k

Morgan Stanley Unified Management Account ⇒ Sterling Capital Mid Value Fund Class R6 (STRM$250k – $500k

Nuveen Intermediate Duration Muni Bd 1$100k – $250k

Mass Mutual 401(k) ⇒ Cash Held in Interest-Bearing Account$100k – $250k

Stifel ⇒ Stifel Bank and Trust$100k – $250k

Stifel ⇒ Stifel Smart Rate$100k – $250k

Stifel ⇒ FIRST TRUST DOW TARGET$50k – $100k

Stifel ⇒ ALBANY DOUGHERTY AUTH GA INNCER CITY REV BOND (7/1/34)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ AUGUSTA GA WTR & SWR RFDG & IMPT 2ND RESOLUTN$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ Bank of America Corporation (BAC)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ BIBB CNTY GA DEV AUTH (07/01/30)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ Bulloch County Ga Dev Stdnt Housing$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ CARROLL CITY CNTY HOSP AUTH (07/01/27)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ CARROLLTON GA PAYROLL DEV AUTH REV UWG (06/15/23)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ CARROLLTON GA PAYROLL DEV REV ANTIC (06/15/23)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ COBB CNTY GA DEV AUTH STDNT HSG (07/15/29)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ COBB CNTY GA KENNESTONE (04/01/31)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ First Trust Sabrient Baker Doz 1Q22$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ First Trust Stifel Picks Jan 2022$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ FULTON CNTY GA DEV AUTH REV RFDG (05/01/26)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ GEORGIA ST SER A (02/01/29)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ GRIFFIN GA COMB PUB UTIL (01/01/27)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ LAWRENCEVILLE GA BLDG AUTH REV PERFORMING ARTS CMPLX (Due 10/01/37)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ Marietta GA Dev Auth$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ Metro Atlanta Rapid Auth (07/01/36)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Tran Auth (07/01/28)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ OCONEE CNTY GA IDA REV (07/01/23)$15k – $50k

Stifel ⇒ PRIVATE CLLGS & UNIV REV SAVANNAH CLLG ART & DSGN$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.80

Healthcare

R+0.70

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.82

Crime & Policing

R+0.87

Defense & Veterans

R+0.79

Economy & Labor

R+0.81

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.69

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.21

Education

R+0.75

Government & Democracy

R+0.87

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Cartersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Communications and Technology Health Environment

Most and least aligned members

Treating Carter's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.