Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn are survived by their children Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith married Jimmy Carter on July 7, 1946, after he graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. They were married for more than 77 years.
John William “Jack” Carter was born in Portsmouth, Va., in July 1947. James Earl “Chip” Carter III followed in April 1950, born in Honolulu. Donnel Jeffrey “Jeff” Carter was born in August 1952, in New London, Conn. Amy, perhaps the best known of the Carter children because she lived in the White House, was born in Plains in October 1967.
Mrs. Carter’s extended family includes grandson Jason Carter, a former Georgia state senator who chairs the board of trustees at the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Niece Kim Carter Fuller, the daughter of the late Billy Carter, has served in a visible role for the family. She is director of Friends of Jimmy Carter National Historic Site, an organization that provides support for the city of Plains and the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park. Fuller also has taken on the role of teaching Sunday school at the Carter family Church, Maranatha Baptist. That role was filled for years by President Carter, until he stepped aside for health reasons in 2019.
Jimmy Carter, born Oct. 1, 1924, is the eldest of Lillian and James Earl Carter’s four children. James Earl Carter Sr. died in 1953 and Lillian Carter in 1983. He had two sisters, Ruth Carter Stapleton and Gloria Spann; and a brother, Billy.
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