What to know about Jimmy Carter’s daughter

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Amy Carter, the only daughter of 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter, will be back in the spotlight today for his father’s national funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, after several years of largely private life.

But her college years in New England were anything but private.

Jimmy Carter had four children with his late wife Rosalynn Carter, and Amy Carter is the youngest.

Many of Carter’s family members will be in attendance at the funeral, including son Chip and grandson Jason, who gave brief speeches Saturday at The Carter Center in Atlanta.

Who is Amy Carter?

Amy Carter, the only daughter of former President Jimmy Carter, was born in 1967 in Plains, Georgia.

She moved into the White House at age nine, making her one of the youngest children to live there since John F. Kennedy’s children were younger than 5 when he took office.

Amy Carter attended Brown University where she actively protested the CIA and apartheid. She was dismissed from the school in 1987 for not completing her course, according to New York Times. She has been placed on probation earlier this year for taking part in an anti-apartheid protest that broke up a meeting of the University Corporation. Previously, she has been “arrested for demonstrations at the South African Embassy in Washington, the International Business Machines Corporation office in Providence, and at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,” wrote the New York Times.

That same year, she was acquitted of trespassing and disorderly conduct charges on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus over a protest by the CIA, T.the New York Times reported at the time.

After leaving Brown University, she lived in Providence and worked in Boston for a while, announcing in December 1987 that she wanted to “to go to a more southern school.”

She later returned to college, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Memphis College or Art, and then in 1996 earned her Masters in Art History from Tulane University.

Is Amy Carter a Republican?

Jimmy Carter was clearly a Democrat, and some wonder about Amy Carter’s political choices. There is no public knowledge of her chosen political party, but she has said to keep her personal and political affiliations relatively private, according to New York Times.

She advocates for human rights and diplomacy as a member of the Board of Advisors for The Carter Center.

It’s easy to mistake Jimmy Carter’s daughter for a one-time Georgia House Rep. Amy Carter of Valdosta, Georgia, although no relation to Jimmy Carter. Rep. Amy Carter is a Democrat turned Republican who represented the 175th District from 2008 to 2017.

How old is Amy Carter now?

She is 57 years old and was born on October 19, 1967. She has two children, son Hugo James Wentzel and daughter Errol Carter Kelly.

Is Amy Carter’s husband, Jay Kelly, in a wheelchair?

Amy Carter married John Joseph Kelly in 2007. Amy pushed Kelly in a wheelchair during ceremonies Tuesday at the US Capitol Rotunda. The family has not commented on why Kelly is in a wheelchair, as he was not in a wheelchair in November 2023 at Rosalynn Carter’s funeral.

Jimmy Carter’s grandchildren

Besides Amy, Jimmy also had three sons: John William “Jack” Carter, James Earl “Chip” Carter III and Donnel Jeffrey “Jeff” Carter.

With these children, Jimmy had 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren in total.