Jimmy Carter

=== Family ===
[[File:Farah Pahlavi and Rosalynn Carter (cropped and retouched).jpg|thumb|alt=The Empress of Iran holding Carter's infant grandson.|[[Farah Pahlavi]], [[Empress of Iran]], holds Jimmy Carter IV while Rosalynn Carter, Caron Carter and Chip Carter watch, January 1978.]]
Carter had three younger siblings, all of whom died of pancreatic cancer: sisters Gloria Spann (1926–1990) and Ruth Stapleton (1929–1983), and brother [[Billy Carter]] (1937–1988).<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert D. Hershey Jr |title=Billy Carter Dies of Cancer at 51; Troubled Brother of a President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/obituaries/billy-carter-dies-of-cancer-at-51-troubled-brother-of-a-president.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 26, 1988 |access-date=July 27, 2011 |archive-date=February 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207130017/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/26/obituaries/billy-carter-dies-of-cancer-at-51-troubled-brother-of-a-president.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was first cousin to politician [[Hugh Carter]] and a distant cousin to the [[Carter family]] of musicians.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Johnny Cash, the Autobiography|isbn=978-0-00-274080-7|publisher=Harper Collins|first1=John R.|last1=Cash|date=1997}}</ref>
He is related to [[Motown]] founder [[Berry Gordy]] by way of their white great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy, who had a relationship with a black female slave he owned.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://walkoffame.com/berry-gordy/#:~:text=Berry%20Gordy%20I%20was%20the,and%20Carter%20second%20half%2Dcousins|title=Berry Gordy|work=[[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]|date=October 25, 2019 |access-date=March 21, 2022|archive-date=March 5, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305212554/https://walkoffame.com/berry-gordy/#:~:text=Berry%20Gordy%20I%20was%20the,and%20Carter%20second%20half%2Dcousins|url-status=live}}</ref>

Carter married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family.<ref name="AJC 71st anv">{{cite news |last1=Vejnoska |first1=Jill |title=Happy 71st wedding anniversary Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter! |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/happy-71st-wedding-anniversary-jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter/8gLu5tUWRYN0iKxX4g8mWP/ |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=March 31, 2019 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401022911/https://www.ajc.com/news/happy-71st-wedding-anniversary-jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter/8gLu5tUWRYN0iKxX4g8mWP/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They had three sons, [[Jack Carter (politician)|Jack]], James III, and Donnel; one daughter, [[Amy Carter|Amy]]; nine grandsons (one of whom is deceased), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and eight great-granddaughters.<ref name="cartercenter">{{cite web |url=https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/biography_of_jimmy_carter |title=Biography of Jimmy Carter |date=July 25, 2018 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |work=Jimmy Carter Library |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018014719/https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/biography_of_jimmy_carter |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Mary Prince (nanny)|Mary Prince]] (an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder, and later pardoned) was their daughter Amy's nanny for most of the period from 1971 until Jimmy Carter's presidency ended.<ref name="Carter2005">{{cite book |author=Jimmy Carter |title=Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis |url=https://archive.org/details/ourendangeredvalcart00cart |url-access=registration |year=2005 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-8457-8 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ourendangeredvalcart00cart/page/84 84]– |quote=My last book, ''Sharing Good Times'', is dedicated "to Mary Prince, whom we love and cherish." Mary is a wonderful black woman who, as a teenager visiting a small town, was falsely accused of murder and defended by an assigned lawyer whom she first met on the day of the trial, when he advised her to plead guilty, promising a light sentence. She got life imprisonment instead ... A reexamination of the evidence and trial proceedings by the original judge revealed that she was completely innocent, and she was granted a pardon.}}</ref><ref name="glamour1">{{cite web |last=Chabbott |first=Sophia |url=http://www.glamour.com/inspired/blogs/the-conversation/2015/03/the-residence-book |title=The Residence: Meet the Women Behind Presidential Families Kennedy, Johnson, Carter |work=Glamour |date=March 19, 2015 |access-date=May 2, 2015 |quote=Rosalynn Carter, who believed Prince was wrongly convicted, secured a reprieve so Prince could join them in Washington. Prince was later granted a full pardon; to this day she occasionally babysits the Carters' grandkids. |archive-date=May 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150509085304/http://www.glamour.com/inspired/blogs/the-conversation/2015/03/the-residence-book |url-status=live }}</ref> Carter had asked to be designated as her [[parole officer]], thus helping to enable her to work in the White House.<ref name="Carter2005" />{{efn|name=Prince01|After working in the Georgia governor's mansion as a [[Trustee#Correctional institution usage|trustee prisoner]], Prince had been returned to prison in 1975 when Carter's term as governor ended, but intervention on her behalf by both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, with Jimmy Carter asking to be designated as her [[parole officer]], enabled her to be [[paroled|reprieved]] and to work in the White House.<ref name="people1">{{cite magazine |last=Crawford |first=Clare |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067515,00.html |title=A Story of Love and Rehabilitation: the Ex-Con in the White House |magazine=People |date=March 14, 1977 |access-date=May 3, 2015 |archive-date=June 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623232438/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067515,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Carter2005" /><ref name="glamour1" />}}

The Carters celebrated their 77th anniversary on July 7, 2023. On October 19, 2019, they became the longest-wed presidential couple, having overtaken George and [[Barbara Bush]] at 26,765 days.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/18/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-become-longest-married-presidential-couple/4025978002/|title='Still going strong': Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter become longest-married presidential couple|first1=Dustin|last1=Barnes|date=October 19, 2019|access-date=September 7, 2021|website=USA Today|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101135011/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/18/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-become-longest-married-presidential-couple/4025978002/|url-status=live}}</ref> After Rosalynn's death on November 19, 2023, Carter released the following statement:

{{blockquote|Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.<ref name="Carter Center death"/>}}

The Carters' eldest son, Jack Carter, was the 2006 Democratic [[2006 United States Senate election in Nevada|nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada]] and lost to Republican incumbent [[John Ensign]]. Jack's son [[Jason Carter (politician)|Jason Carter]] is a former Georgia state senator,<ref name="NYT 2010-05-11">{{cite news |last=Hulse |first=Carl |title=Veteran House Democrat Loses Seat in Primary |website=The New York Times |date=May 11, 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/politics/12elect.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/politics/12elect.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=August 12, 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and in 2014 was the Democratic nominee for [[2014 Georgia gubernatorial election|governor of Georgia]], losing to the Republican incumbent, [[Nathan Deal]]. On December 20, 2015, while teaching a Sunday school class, Carter announced that his 28-year-old grandson Jeremy Carter had died of unspecified causes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/jimmy-carter-grandson-death/ |title=Hours after death of grandson, Jimmy Carter reveals the news to his church |first1=Ashley |last1=Fantz |first2=Carma |last2=Hassan |work=CNN|date=December 20, 2015 |access-date=December 21, 2015 |archive-date=December 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220215627/http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/jimmy-carter-grandson-death/ |url-status=live }}</ref>