Small business owner, lives in Lebanon, IL, where he operates Custom Product Innovations and Custom Coating Innovations. Served eight years on the St. Clair County Board and six years on the O’Fallon Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, including two years as President and four years as Chairman of the Economic Development Committee. B.S. in Accounting from Oral Roberts University. Married to Victoria and has two sons. Mr. McCarter, an Illinois manufacturer and politician, has been president and owner of Custom Product Innovations, Inc., since 1996, and of Custom Coating Innovations since 2009. He has also been a State senator in the Illinois General Assembly since 2009. From 1984-1989, he served as a field auditor, Missionary and International Director of Each One Feed One International, based in Lebanon, Illinois with an office in Mukothima, Kenya. Mr. McCarter volunteered as a Member of Mercy Ministries of America (now Mercy Multiplied), serving as president for one year. Mr. McCarter earned a B.S. at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.