Everything about Amy Carter totally explained
Amy Lynn Carter (born
October 19,
1967) is the youngest of the four children and the only daughter of
U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife
Rosalynn Carter.
Amy was born and raised, until her father's presidency, in
Plains, Georgia, with her father serving as governor of the state for much of the period. Amy has three brothers who are roughly 15 to 20 years older than she.
Amy Carter lived in the
White House for four years from the age of 9. She was the subject of much media attention during this period as young children hadn't lived in the White House since the early 1960s presidency of
John F. Kennedy. While in the White House, she'd a
Siamese cat named "Misty Malarky Ying Yang", who would be the last cat to occupy the White House until
Socks, owned by
Bill Clinton. She also had 39 teddy bears. Amy Carter attended
Hardy Middle School while in D.C.
President Carter mentioned Amy during a 1980 debate with
Ronald Reagan, when he said he'd asked her what the most important issue in that election was and she said, "the control of
nuclear arms". Once, when asked whether she'd any message for the children of America, Amy replied with a simple "No".
Amy Carter later became known for her political activism, participating in a number of
sit-ins and protests during the
1980s and early
1990s, aimed at changing U.S.
foreign policy towards
South Africa and
Central America. Along with activist
Abbie Hoffman and thirteen others, she was arrested during a
1987 demonstration at the
University of Massachusetts, for protesting
CIA recruitment there. She was acquitted of all charges in a well publicized trial in
Northampton, Massachusetts. Attorney
Leonard Weinglass, who defended Abbie Hoffman in the
Chicago Seven trial in the 1960s, utilized the necessity defense, successfully arguing that CIA crimes in Central America and other hotspots were equivalent to trespassing in a burning building. This occurred during Amy's sophomore year at
Brown University located in Providence, Rhode Island. Later, Amy left Brown due to unrelated and unpublicized issues.
Amy Carter earned a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (BFA) from the
Memphis College of Art and a
Master's degree from
Tulane University in New Orleans.
Carter collaborated with her father on the
1995 children's book
The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer (ISBN 0-8129-2731-1); he wrote the story and she illustrated it.
In September
1996, Carter married computer consultant James Gregory Wentzel, whom she'd met while attending Tulane. Ms. Carter chose not to be "given away," stating that she "belonged to no one." Ms. Carter and Mr. Wentzel both kept their own
family names. The couple moved to the
Atlanta area, where they've focused on raising their son Hugo James Wentzel (born
July 29,
1999). Since the late
1990s, Carter has maintained a low profile, neither participating in public protests, nor granting interviews; she's a board member of the
Carter Center that advocates
human rights and
diplomacy as established by her father.
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