Mary Prince (nanny)

Mary Prince is a woman convicted of murder who then became the nanny for Amy Carter, the daughter of Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter.[1] Prince became Amy's nanny in 1971 while Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia and she was a prisoner assigned to the governor's mansion.[2] She had been convicted of murdering another woman's boyfriend in 1970.[3]

In 1975, when Jimmy Carter's term as governor ended, she was sent back to prison; however, in January, 1977 Prince was able to travel to Washington for Carter's inauguration as U.S. president.[3] With a letter from the White House to Georgia prison officials, she was reprieved, and Prince was able to work at the White House.[3] Jimmy Carter was designated as her parole officer, and she lived in the White House for the four years of his presidency.[4]

Jimmy Carter dedicated his 2005 book, Sharing Good Times, to Prince, and discusses her in his 2006 book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis.[4] Prince is also featured in the 2015 Kate Anderson Brower book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House.[5][4]

References

  1. ↑ Chabbott, Sophia (2015-03-19). "The Residence: Meet the Women Behind Presidential Families Kennedy, Johnson, Carter". Glamour.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
  2. ↑ Jimmy Carter (25 March 2014). The Jimmy Carter Library. Simon & Schuster. pp. 1472–. ISBN 978-1-4767-8527-1.
  3. 1 2 3 Crawford, Clare. "A Story of Love and Rehabilitation: the Ex-Con in the White House". People.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
  4. 1 2 3 Jimmy Carter (2005). Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. Simon and Schuster. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-0-7432-8457-8.
  5. ↑ name="glamour1">Chabbott, Sophia (2015-03-19). "The Residence: Meet the Women Behind Presidential Families Kennedy, Johnson, Carter". Glamour.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
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