He married Juliette Langford in 1971 and they welcomed two kids, Jason and Sarah Carter, in 1975 and 1978, respectively. Jack is the stepfather of her two children, John Chuldenko and Sarah Chuldenko Reynolds. Jimmy and Rosalynn’s eldest son was born July 3, 1947, in Portsmouth, Virginia, while Jimmy was still serving in the U.S. He later joined the Navy himself after attending Georgia Tech, Emory University and Georgia Southwestern, and earned a degree in nuclear physics from the former, according to The Jimmy Carter Center Presidential Library and Museum.

After the White House, her early adult john joseph kelly and amy carter years were filled with activism and arrests before eventually getting dismissed from college. He’s also currently working on a project a bit closer to home — updating the White House’s secret collection of music records. As John told NPR, he first learned of the official record collection during a family vacation.

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Tying the knot in 1946, the couple went on to welcome a combined total of 22 kids, grandkids and great-grandkids. Jimmy and Rosalynn welcomed their eldest, John William “Jack” Carter, in 1947, followed by son James “Chip” Carter in 1950, and son Donnel Jeffrey “Jeff” Carter in 1952. Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter built quite the family over the course of their 77-year marriage. Her burial site is within view of the front porch of the home where the 39th American president still lives. PLAINS, Ga. — Rosalynn Carter received her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.

1. Born April 24, 1991, in Georgia, James “Jamie” Carlton Carter is the youngest child of Jeff and Annette Carter.
2. In February 2023, James and his wife, Sally Carter, visited his grandparents at their home in Georgia.
3. No other young children would live there until a 12-year-old Chelsea Clinton moved in 1993.
4. The former first lady was laid to rest, with her funeral taking place in the same tiny town where she and her husband, Jimmy Carter, were born.
5. Entering the White House at just nine years old, Amy was the first young child to live there since Caroline and John Jr. left the residence at five and three years old after the assassination of their father, President John F. Kennedy, in 1963.

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Even so, she never stopped being the small-town Southerner whose cooking repertoire leaned heavily on mayonnaise and pimento cheese, Jason Carter said as he told endearing stories about his grandmother. Vernita Sampson, a school bus driver and Plains native, drove a group of area high school students, all wearing Future Farmer of America jackets, to downtown Plains to pay tribute to the former first lady and soak up the history of the day. Jimmy Carter, who is 10 months into home hospice care, watched from his wheelchair, reclining and covered by a blanket featuring his wife’s face. Chip and his sister, Amy, held their father’s hands and were flanked by their brothers, Jeff and Jack.

Jimmy Carter’s closest political adviser and a political force in her own right, she advocated for better mental health care and underappreciated caregivers in millions of U.S. households. Traveling overseas, she fought disease, famine, and the abuse of women and girls. Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, her grandson said. His research was highly publicized in the 2012 presidential election between then-incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney. James was behind the leak of a viral video of Romney at a fundraiser telling the crowd that 47% of Americans “believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it,” among other baseless assertions. “I’ve been searching for clips on Republicans for a long time, almost every day,” he told New York Magazine.

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John spent the following years researching and learning more about the collection, which, as of May 2022, he was working to update with the help of the Recording Industry Association of America. According to his website, John currently lives in Los Angeles with his two daughters. “We walk in and they’re all in these cardboard boxes,” he described to NPR.

During Tuesday’s tribute service, son James Earl “Chip” Carter III told a story about how his mother, Rosalynn Carter, demonstrated the art of doing the hula. The Carters lived in Hawaii early in their marriage and Chip was born in Hawaii. Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, mourners were told at her services this week.

He later married Ginger Hodges, with whom he welcomed daughter Margaret Alicia Carter on Sept. 23, 1987. Chip and Hodges also divorced; in 2001, he married his third wife, Becky Payne, with whom he lives in Decatur, Georgia. Chip married Caron Griffin on June 23, 1973, after meeting her three years earlier during his father’s campaign for governor in Georgia.

The Atlanta events reflected the grandest chapters of Rosalynn Carter’s life. President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and the first ladies joined Jimmy Carter and their four children in the front row, in front of more than 1,000 congregants in suits, ties and dresses. “She was born just a few years after women got the right to vote in this small town in the South where people were still plowing their fields behind mules,” grandson Jason Carter said during the memorial service Tuesday at Atlanta’s Glenn Memorial Church. Jimmy Carter met his future wife only a few days after her mother delivered her.