Editing Jimmy Carter (section)

== Personal life ==
Carter had three younger siblings, all of whom died of pancreatic cancer: [[Gloria Spann]], [[Ruth Stapleton]], and Billy Carter.<ref>{{cite news |author=Robert D. Hershey Jr |date=September 26, 1988 |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 |url-status=live |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 |archive-date=February 7, 2021 |access-date=July 27, 2011 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> He was a first cousin of politician [[Hugh Carter]] and a distant cousin of the [[Carter family]] of musicians.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cash |first1=John R. |title=Johnny Cash, the Autobiography |date=1997 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-00-274080-7}}</ref>[[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 married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vejnoska |first1=Jill |date=July 7, 2017 |title=Happy 71st wedding anniversary Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter! |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/happy-71st-wedding-anniversary-jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter/8gLu5tUWRYN0iKxX4g8mWP/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401022911/https://www.ajc.com/news/happy-71st-wedding-anniversary-jimmy-and-rosalynn-carter/8gLu5tUWRYN0iKxX4g8mWP/ |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |access-date=March 31, 2019 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution}}</ref> They had three sons, [[Jack Carter (politician)|John "Jack"]], James III "Chip", and Donnel "Jeff", and a daughter, Amy.<ref>{{cite web |date=July 25, 2018 |title=Biography of Jimmy Carter |url=https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/biography_of_jimmy_carter |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018014719/https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/about_us/biography_of_jimmy_carter |archive-date=October 18, 2020 |access-date=October 13, 2020 |work=Jimmy Carter Library}}</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 Carter's presidency ended.{{sfn|Alter|2020|pp=316–317}}<ref name="Carter2005">{{cite book |author=Jimmy Carter |url=https://archive.org/details/ourendangeredvalcart00cart |title=Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2005 |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. |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bird |first=Kai |author-link=Kai Bird |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g9MAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 |title=The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter |date=2021 |publisher=Crown |isbn=978-0-451-49523-5 |location=New York |pages=3–4, 81–82}}</ref> Carter had asked to be designated as her [[parole officer]], helping 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>{{cite magazine |last=Crawford |first=Clare |url=https://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/https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20067515,00.html}}</ref><ref name="Carter2005" /><ref>{{cite web |last=Chabbott |first=Sophia |url=https://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/https://www.glamour.com/inspired/blogs/the-conversation/2015/03/the-residence-book |url-status=live}}</ref>}}

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

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>{{cite news |last=Hulse |first=Carl |date=May 11, 2010 |title=Veteran House Democrat Loses Seat in Primary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/politics/12elect.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220103/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/us/politics/12elect.html |archive-date=January 3, 2022 |access-date=August 12, 2015 |website=The New York Times}}{{cbignore}}</ref> who 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 |last1=Fantz |first1=Ashley |last2=Hassan |first2=Carma |date=December 20, 2015 |title=Hours after death of grandson, Jimmy Carter reveals the news to his church |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/jimmy-carter-grandson-death/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220215627/https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/20/us/jimmy-carter-grandson-death/ |archive-date=December 20, 2015 |access-date=December 21, 2015 |publisher=CNN}}</ref>

=== Interests, friendships and hobbies ===
Carter's hobbies included painting,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/06/27/4532-jimmy-carter-painting-brings-over-half-million-dollars-at-auction|title=Jimmy Carter Painting Brings Over Half Million Dollars At Auction|date=June 27, 2017|access-date=September 7, 2021|archive-date=September 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907184128/https://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/06/27/4532-jimmy-carter-painting-brings-over-half-million-dollars-at-auction|url-status=live}}</ref> [[fly fishing]], woodworking, cycling, tennis, and skiing.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html |title=Jimmy Carter – Biographical |publisher=The Nobel Foundation |access-date=December 28, 2014 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215182218/https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2002/carter-bio.html |url-status=live}}</ref> He also had an interest in poetry, particularly the works of [[Dylan Thomas]].<ref name="Thomas">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15661342 |title=Jimmy Carter to welcome visitors to Dylan Thomas house |website=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=November 9, 2011 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-date=September 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917030101/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15661342 |url-status=live}}</ref> During a state visit to the UK in 1977, Carter suggested that Thomas should have a memorial in [[Poets' Corner]] at [[Westminster Abbey]];<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20068169,00.html |title=Jimmy Carter's Crusade for Dylan Thomas Wins a Supporter—his Grateful Widow, Caitlin |website=People |first=M.J. |last=Wilson |date=June 27, 1977 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222125301/https://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20068169,00.html}}</ref> this came to fruition in 1982.<ref name="Thomas" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/dylan-thomas |title=Dylan Thomas |website=Westminster Abbey |publisher=The Dean and Chapter of Westminster |year=2015 |access-date=November 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222105450/https://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/dylan-thomas |archive-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref> In 1994, Carter published a book of poetry, ''Always a Reckoning and Other Poems,'' illustrated by his granddaughter Sarah Chuldenko.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All About Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter's Children and Grandchildren |url=https://people.com/politics/all-about-jimmy-carter-rosalynn-carter-children-grandchildren/ |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=People |language=en}}</ref>

Carter was a personal friend of [[Elvis Presley]], whom he and Rosalynn met on June 30, 1973.<ref>{{cite web |title=Elvis Presley and Politics |url=https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/15/Elvis-Presley-and-Politics/ |website=Neatorama |date=July 15, 2015 |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705121127/https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/15/Elvis-Presley-and-Politics/ |url-status=live}}</ref> They remained in contact by telephone two months before Presley's sudden death in August 1977. According to Carter, Presley was almost incoherent because of barbiturates; although he phoned the White House several more times, that was the last time they spoke.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Takes: Elvis Presley on the Line |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/takes-elvis-presley-on-the-line |magazine=The New Yorker |date=August 16, 2011 |author=Erin Overbey |author-link=Erin Overbey |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212448/https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/takes-elvis-presley-on-the-line |url-status=live}}</ref> The day after Presley's death, Carter issued a statement and said Presley had "changed the face of American popular culture".<ref>{{cite web |title=Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7969/ |website=The American Presidency Project |last1=Peters |first1=Gerhard |last2=Woolley |first2=John T. |access-date=February 20, 2018 |archive-date=November 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101190121/https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=7969%2F |url-status=live}}</ref>

Carter filed a report with both the International UFO Bureau and the [[National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena]]<ref>{{cite news|first=Thomas|last=O'Toole|title=UFO Over Georgia? Jimmy Logged One|date=April 30, 1977|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/|access-date=October 1, 2021|archive-date=November 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109013122/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/04/30/ufo-over-georgia-jimmy-logged-one/080ef1c3-6ff3-41a9-a1e4-a37c54b5cbca/|url-status=live}}</ref> saying that [[Jimmy Carter UFO incident|he saw an unidentified flying object]] in October 1969.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ed|last=Kilgore|title=Jimmy Carter Saw a UFO on This Day in 1973|date=September 18, 2019|work=New York|url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/jimmy-carter-saw-a-ufo-on-this-day-in-1973.html|access-date=October 1, 2021|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001025315/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/09/jimmy-carter-saw-a-ufo-on-this-day-in-1973.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nicap.org/waves/CarterSightingRptOct1969.pdf|title=Official report by Carter to the International UFO Bureau|access-date=September 17, 2021|archive-date=September 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913190524/https://www.nicap.org/waves/CarterSightingRptOct1969.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Joseph|last=Egelhof|title=Jimmy Carter's UFO|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86289659/|access-date=October 1, 2021|work=Boston Evening Globe|page=15|date=November 11, 1977|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|archive-date=March 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321155347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86289659/the-boston-globe/|url-status=live}}</ref> Records showed that Carter got the date wrong, and it was in fact on January 6, 1969. In 2016, a former Air Force scientist found old government reports about a scientific project that on that date launched a barium cloud to examine the upper atmosphere. It would have appeared in the sky at an elevation of 33 degrees, which is almost exactly what Carter had speculated.{{sfn|Alter|2020|pp=[https://books.google.com/books?id=QwAAEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 201–202]}}

=== Beliefs ===
From a young age, Carter showed deep commitment to [[evangelical Christianity]].<ref name="NYT baptist">[[Somini Sengupta]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/us/carter-sadly-turns-back-on-national-baptist-body.html "Carter Sadly Turns Back on National Baptist Body"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217225008/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/us/carter-sadly-turns-back-on-national-baptist-body.html |date=December 17, 2014}}, ''The New York Times'', October 21, 2000. Page A9. Retrieved August 4, 2008.</ref><ref name="Balmer-2023">{{Cite web |last=Balmer |first=Randall |author-link=Randall Balmer |date=February 22, 2023 |title=Jimmy Carter Was America's Evangelical-in-Chief |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/22/jimmy-carter-foreign-policy-america-evangelical-christianity/ |access-date=March 16, 2023 |website=Foreign Policy |archive-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316174428/https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/22/jimmy-carter-foreign-policy-america-evangelical-christianity/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He taught Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last1=Burns|first1=Rebecca|date=June 1, 2016|title=Pilgrimage to Plains: The faithful come from around the world to hear Jimmy Carter preach|url=https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/pilgrimage-to-plains-jimmy-carter/|magazine=Atlanta Magazine|access-date=September 9, 2021|archive-date=October 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001115130/https://www.atlantamagazine.com/great-reads/pilgrimage-to-plains-jimmy-carter/|url-status=live}}</ref> At a private inauguration worship service, the preacher was Nelson Price, the pastor of Roswell Street Baptist Church of Marietta, Georgia.<ref>Hobbs, Herschel H. and Mullins, Edgar Young. (1978). ''The Axioms of Religion''. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman Press. Revised edition. p. 22. {{ISBN|978-0-8054-1707-4}}.</ref> An evangelical Christian, Carter appealed to voters after the scandals of the [[Nixon Administration]], and is credited with popularizing the term "born again" into American [[lexicon]] during his 1976 presidential campaign.<ref name="Balmer-2023" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Daniel |date=May 20, 2021 |title=Evangelicals and the American Presidency |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/billy-graham-evangelicals-and-american-presidency/ |access-date=March 16, 2023 |publisher=[[PBS]] |archive-date=March 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230316174428/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/billy-graham-evangelicals-and-american-presidency/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Haberman |first=Clyde |date=October 28, 2018 |title=Religion and Right-Wing Politics: How Evangelicals Reshaped Elections |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/religion-politics-evangelicals.html |access-date=March 16, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200514195454/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/religion-politics-evangelicals.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Green |first=Joshua |date=March 1, 2023 |title=How Evangelical Voters Swung From Carter to Trump |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-evangelical-voters-swung-from-carter-to-trump/2023/03/01/e43a7112-b833-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html |access-date=March 16, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |archive-date=March 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320002043/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/how-evangelical-voters-swung-from-carter-to-trump/2023/03/01/e43a7112-b833-11ed-b0df-8ca14de679ad_story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> As president, Carter prayed several times a day, and said Jesus was the driving force in his life. He was greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man that asked: "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"<ref>{{cite book |title=Conversations with Carter |isbn=978-1-55587-801-6 |year=1998 |page=14 |first1=Jimmy |last1=Carter |first2=Don |last2=Richardson |publisher=Lynne Rienner Publishers}}</ref> In 2000, after the [[Southern Baptist Convention]] announced it would no longer permit women to become pastors, he renounced his membership, saying: "I personally feel that women should play an absolutely equal role in service of Christ in the church."<ref>{{cite news |title=Jimmy Carter Leaves Southern Baptists |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311&page=1 |date=October 20, 2000 |access-date=October 12, 2022 |agency=ABC News |archive-date=October 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221011054437/https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95311&page=1 |url-status=live}}</ref> He remained a member of the [[Cooperative Baptist Fellowship]].<ref name="NYT baptist" /> Carter's support for the [[Equal Rights Amendment]]<ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.1525/rac.2014.24.1.100 | title=The Politicization of Family Life: How Headship Became Essential to Evangelical Identity in the Late Twentieth Century | year=2014 | last1=Stasson | first1=Anneke | journal=Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation | volume=24 | pages=100–138 | s2cid=142760970}}</ref> led many [[evangelical conservatives]] to leave the Democratic Party, contributing to the development of the [[Christian right]] in American politics.<ref>Ellis, Blake A. "An Alternative Politics: Texas Baptists and the Rise of the Christian Right, 1975–1985." ''The Southwestern Historical Quarterly'', vol. 112, no. 4, 2009, pp. 361–86. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/30242432 JSTOR website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510041215/https://www.jstor.org/stable/30242432 |date=May 10, 2023}} Retrieved May 5, 2023.</ref>