title: Carter Burden
text: # Carter Burden
  
  Shirley Carter Burden Jr. (August 25, 1941 – January 23, 1996) was an American politician who served in the New York City Council from 1970 to 1977. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  
  Burden received his B.A. from Harvard University and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School.
  
  He died on January 23, 1996, in Manhattan, New York City, at age 54.
  
  