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He was twice president of the Alexandria Businessmen's Club, president of the Naval Academy Class of 1951, past president of the National Capital Council of the Navy League and the national vice president of the Navy League.

His marriage to Jean Bastian Doggett ended in divorce.


Burton Lee Doggett received two Navy awards. (Family Photo)

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Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Mary Ann Doggett of Annapolis; two sons from his previous marriage, Burton Lee Doggett III of Ladysmith, Va., and David Randolph Doggett of Virginia Beach; and two grandsons.

Mitchell R. Carter Paralegal

Mitchell Ramsay Carter, 48, a Washington resident and senior paralegal at Patton Boggs LLP, died April 4 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had complications from epilepsy.

In the 1990s, Mr. Carter worked as a paralegal at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP as well as what is now Howrey Simon Arnold & White LLP. He joined Patton Boggs in 2001.

He was born in Cincinnati and raised in Washington, where he was a 1974 graduate of Western High School. He was a 1980 human ecology graduate of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he was editor of the college newspaper.

He was a carpenter in Maine before returning to the Washington area in 1990.

In 1995, he received a Montgomery County Press Association scholarship and attended the University of Maryland's college of journalism.

He was a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church in Washington, where he formerly served on the parish council.

Survivors include his wife of two years, Florence Harth Carter, and a son, Nicolas Carter, both of Washington; his parents, Terence Carter of Irvington, Va., and Joan Ramsay Carter of Frederick; and three sisters, Melanie Gardner of Saugerties, N.Y., Leslie Carter of Shepherdstown, W.Va., and Jocelyn Carter of Frederick.

James Wesley Featherstone II CIA Analyst

James Wesley Featherstone II, 90, a former analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, died April 2 of a heart attack at his home in Alexandria.

Mr. Featherstone came to the Washington area in 1944 as a Navy officer. After studying Russian at the Navy's language school, he became an interpreter and intelligence officer in Alaska. He helped train Russian personnel for the delivery of U.S. ships and supplies to Russia during World War II.

After the war, he was assigned to the Pentagon, where he worked as a civilian employee in the Russian branch of the Office of Naval Intelligence.

After he joined the CIA in 1952, Mr. Featherstone reviewed and edited many of the agency's intelligence publications. He briefed presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon on Chinese and Soviet affairs.


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