Mary Prince (nanny)
Mary Prince was a woman convicted of murder, and the nanny for Amy Carter, the daughter of Jimmy Carter and Rosalyn Carter.[1] She became Amy's nanny in 1971, when Jimmy Carter was governor 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 time as governor ended, she was sent back to prison; however, she was able to travel to Washington for Carter's inauguration.[3] With a letter from the White House to Georgia prison officials, Prince was reprieved and 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]
She is discussed in the book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, by Kate Andersen Brower, published by Harper in 2015.[1] Jimmy Carter's book Sharing Good Times is dedicated to her.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chabbott, Sophia (2015-03-19). "The Residence: Meet the Women Behind Presidential Families Kennedy, Johnson, Carter". Glamour.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- ↑ Jimmy Carter (25 March 2014). The Jimmy Carter Library. Simon & Schuster. pp. 1472–. ISBN 978-1-4767-8527-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Crawford, Clare. "A Story of Love and Rehabilitation: the Ex-Con in the White House". People.com. Retrieved 2015-05-03.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jimmy Carter (2005). Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. Simon and Schuster. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-0-7432-8457-8.