Jimmy Carter rests in Georgia next to his wife Rosalynn Carter

The Carters may have had a young daughter, but they also had three daughters-in-law by the time Jimmy became president, and most of the family moved to Washington.

Jack and his wife Juliette “Judy” Langford remained in Georgia, where they welcomed their son Jason James Carter on August 7, 1975, and where his daughter Sarah Rosemary would have been born on December 19, 1978. (After their divorce, Jack married, mother of two children. Elizabeth Brasfield on May 15, 1992.)

The Carters' second son, James Earl “Chip” Carter IIIworked for the Democratic National Committee in Washington while his father was in office and moved into the White House with his wife Caron Griffin, who was eight months pregnant on inauguration day. Yet she walked the parade route with the rest of the family for a few blocks when the president and first lady made the unprecedented decision to walk a full mile and a half from the Capitol to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

“People along the parade route, when they saw we were marching, started clapping and crying,” Jimmy said. wrote later“and it was an emotional experience for us too.”