Albert Edward Carter (July 5, 1881 – August 8, 1964) was an American lawyer and politician who served ten terms as a Republican United States Representative from California from 1925 to 1945.

Carter was born in Lemon Cove (sometimes spelled Lemoncove), in Tulare County, California.

He taught school six years and then graduated from the law department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1913.

Carter was a representative of the United States War Department Commission on Training Camps from 1917 to 1919.

He was an attorney for the California State Board of Pharmacy in 1920 and 1921 and commissioner of public works of Oakland 1921–1925 and in 1923 initiated the plan for a comprehensive development of the harbor on the east side of San Francisco Bay.