Amy Carter Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Full Name	Amy Lynn Carter
Profession	Political Activist
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 5" (165 cm)
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Light Golden Blonde
Personal Life
Date of Birth	19 October 1967 (Thursday)
Age (as of 2024)	57 Years
Birthplace	Plains, Georgia, USA
Zodiac sign	Libra
Nationality	American
Hometown	Plains
School	• Thaddeus Stevens School, Washington, D.C. • Hardy Middle School, Washington, D.C. • Woodward Academy, College Park, Georgia
College/University	• Brown University, Rhode Island, USA • Memphis College of Art (MCA), Tennessee • Tulane University, New Orleans (1996)
Educational Qualification(s)	• Bachelor of Fine Arts from the MCA • A master's degree in Art History from Tulane University
Religion	Christianity
Controversy	1986 Protest Against CIA Recruitment: In 1986, Amy Carter, who was a student at Brown University, was arrested during a protest against CIA recruitment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Along with 13 others, including activist Abbie Hoffman, she faced charges but was acquitted in a high-profile trial. [1]Zinn Education Project
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Divorced
Marriage Date	First Marriage: 1 September 1996
Family
Husband/Spouse	First Husband: James Gregory Wentzel (computer consultant) (m. 1996; div. 2005) Second Husband: John Joseph Kelly (m. 2007)
Children	Son- Hugo James Wentzel (bodybuilder, former TV personality) Daughter- Errol Carter Kelly
Parents	Father- Jimmy Carter (politician, humanitarian) (deceased) Mother- Rosalynn Carter (writer, activist, humanitarian)
Siblings	Brother(s)- 3 • James Carter (politician) • Donnel Carter (writer) • Jack Carter (politician, businessman) Sister- None

Some Lesser Known Facts About Amy Carter

• Amy Carter’s family voted a year before her birth to decide if her parents should have a daughter. They even picked her name from a Webster’s Dictionary before she was born.

• Amy spent her childhood in Plains, Georgia, until 1970, when her father was elected as the Governor of Georgia. Following his election, the family relocated to the Georgia Governor’s mansion in Atlanta.

• In 1976, Amy’s father became the President of the United States, and the family moved to the White House, where they lived for four years.

• During her time in the White House, she received a lot of media attention as she was the first young child to live there since John F. Kennedy’s presidency in the 1960s.

• Amy had a Siamese cat named Misty Malarky Ying Yang when she was in the White House; it was the last cat to live there until Bill Clinton’s cat, Socks. Amy was also gifted an elephant from Sri Lanka, which was later sent to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
  

  Amy Carter with her pet cat

• Amy loved roller-skating through the East Room of the White House and had a treehouse set up on the South lawn. Whenever she held slumber parties in the treehouse, Secret Service agents kept watch from the ground.

• From 1971 until the end of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, Amy’s nanny was Mary Prince, an African American woman who joined through a Georgia prison release program and was later cleared of a wrongful murder conviction.

• On 21 February 1977, a White House state dinner was held for Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. During the event, Amy, who was nine years old, was spotted reading ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator’ and ‘The Story of the Gettysburg Address’ while her father and Trudeau exchanged formal toasts.

• After his presidency, Carter relocated to Atlanta, where she attended Woodward Academy.

• Amy was kept informed about important issues. In a 1980 debate with Ronald Reagan, President Carter shared that when he asked Amy what the most important issue in the election was, she said, “the control of nuclear arms.”

• While in high school, Amy served as a Senate page during the summer of 1982. She later attended Brown University, where she became active in protesting apartheid, a system of racial segregation in South Africa, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

• In 1982, Amy appeared on the chat show ‘Late Night with David Letterman,’ which aired on NBC.

• In 1987, Amy was dismissed from Brown University as she struggled to keep up with her coursework.

•  In 1995, she illustrated her father’s children’s book, ‘The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer.’

• Amy Carter serves on the board of counsellors for the Carter Center, an organisation founded by her father to promote human rights and diplomacy.