Carter, A. F. (Andrew Francis), 1883-1966

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A. F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A. W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A.F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A.W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.

Members of a joint U.S.-British Conference on International Oil Resources that met for the initial exploratory session in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Sir William Brown, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation; Charles Raynor, U.S. State Department Chairman; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (fifth); Commodore A.W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington (eleventh); Commodore A.F.