Former President Jimmy Carter, the longest-living U.S. president at 100 years previous, handed away on Sunday, December 29. The Carter Middle confirmed he died in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his household.
He had laid his spouse, Rosalynn Carter, to relaxation on November 28, 2023. Rosalyn’s memorial service got here 9 months after it was introduced that the previous president would obtain hospice care in February. Jimmy “determined to spend his remaining time at dwelling together with his household and obtain hospice care as a substitute of extra medical intervention” after a sequence of quick hospital stays, in line with a press release from The Carter Middle.
Rosalyn’s passing was introduced shortly after she started hospice care herself earlier in November, following a dementia analysis. Following her demise, the previous president paid tribute to her in a press release shared by the Carter Middle. “Rosalynn was my equal companion in the whole lot I ever achieved,” he stated. “She gave me smart steering and encouragement once I wanted it. So long as Rosalynn was on the earth, I at all times knew any individual beloved and supported me.”
The previous Georgia senator had an unbelievable profession as a humanitarian following his 4 years within the White Home from 1977 to 1981. He turned synonymous with Habitat for Humanity and labored tirelessly as an envoy to impoverished international locations, incomes himself the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
“After I was president of probably the most highly effective and influential nation on earth, I had extra complete affect over peace and progress and issues like that,” Jimmy stated in a 2017 interview with Oprah Winfrey. “However the final 35 years since I’ve left the White Home has been probably the most difficult and fascinating and adventurous and unpredictable and gratifying instances of my life. … And the issues that I attempted and didn’t fairly accomplish due to change in circumstances and so forth. However, I did one of the best I may. As my vice chairman stated, ‘We informed the reality, we obeyed the legislation and we saved the peace.’”
Alongside together with his unbelievable profession, Carter had an especially profitable private life. He married his childhood sweetheart, Rosalyn Smith, on July 7, 1946 and so they welcomed 4 great youngsters. In a 2015 interview with CNN, the previous politician stated his spouse and kids are “the muse for my complete enjoyment of life.” He added, “We have now a giant household now, we have now 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, 38 of us in all. So, we attempt to maintain our household collectively and simply benefit from the household life.”
Be taught extra about Carter’s youngsters, beneath.
Jack Carter
The Carter’s eldest baby, son Jack Carter, was born on July 3, 1947 at Portsmouth, Virginia throughout his father’s naval service, in line with The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. After attending Georgia Tech, Emory College, and Georgia Southwestern, Jack joined the Navy. He returned to Georgia in 1971, the place he married Judy Langford, and so they had two youngsters: Jason James born August 7, 1975 and Sarah Rosemary born on December 19, 1978.
Jack then earned a level in nuclear physics at Georgia Tech and a legislation diploma on the College of Georgia. Nevertheless, he entered the political area in 2006, when he ran because the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada earlier than dropping to the Republican incumbent.
Jack remarried in 1992, and his second spouse, Elizabeth Brasfield, had two youngsters from a earlier relationship: John Chuldenko and Sarah Reynold, per Nation Residing.
James ‘Chip’ Carter
Born April 12, 1950, in Honolulu, James “Chip” Carter is the second baby of Jimmy and Roselyn. He’s an legal professional and served as a state senator in Georgia from 1995 to 1999.
On June 23, 1973, Chip married Caron Griffin, whom he had met whereas engaged on his father’s marketing campaign for Georgia governor, per Folks. They welcomed a son named James Earl Carter IV on Feb. 25, 1977. After Chip and Caron cut up in 1979, Chip married Ginger Hodges and had a daughter named Margaret Alicia Carter together with her on Sept. 23, 1987. Nevertheless, that marriage led to divorce in 2001, and Chip would go on to marry his third spouse, Becky Payne.
Following his mom’s demise, Chip launched his personal assertion, honoring the previous first woman. “Her lifetime of service and compassion was an instance for all Individuals. She shall be sorely missed not solely by our household however by the many individuals who’ve higher psychological well being care and entry to sources for caregiving at the moment,” he stated.
Chip additionally confirmed his father’s demise on Dec. 29 in a press release, “My father was a hero, not solely to me however to everybody who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love. My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the remainder of the world by these widespread beliefs. The world is our household due to the way in which he introduced folks collectively, and we thanks for honoring his reminiscence by persevering with to reside these shared beliefs.”
Donnel ‘Jeff’ Carter
Donnel “Jeff” Carter was born on Aug. 18, 1952, in New London, Connecticut. He graduated from George Washington College in 1978 with a geography diploma and a specialty “in pc cartography,” per Time. Jeff and his former professor co-founded the corporate Pc Mapping Consultants the identical yr of his commencement.
He and his spouse, Annette Jene Davis, welcomed three sons collectively: Joshua, Jeremy, and James. Sadly, Jeremy handed away on the age of 28 in 2015. He was discovered unresponsive after taking a nap at his dwelling and later died in a hospital, in line with The Atlanta Journal-Structure. Annette died on Sept. 19, 2021, at age 68.
Amy Lynn Carter
The youngest baby and solely daughter of Jimmy and Rosalynn, Amy Carter, arrived on Oct. 19, 1967. She was solely 10 years previous when her household moved into the White Home. She turned identified for her political activism throughout her 20s. Amy then went on to get her bachelor’s diploma from the Memphis Faculty of Artwork in 1991. 4 years later, Amy illustrated her father’s youngsters’s e-book, The Little Child Snoogle-Fleejer.
She would go on to get her grasp’s in artwork historical past from Tulane College in 1996. That very same yr, Amy married pc marketing consultant James Wentzel and the couple welcomed son Hugo in July 1999.