Gloria Carter Spann was a motorcyclist and activist. Spann was the sister of former president Jimmy Carter. She was noted as one of the first women inducted into Harley-Davidson’s 100,000 Mile Club, was named Most Outstanding Female Motorcyclist in 1978, and worked as an activist for motorcycle rights.
Gloria Carter Spann’s husbands
Gloria married a war hero named William Everett Hardy from Americus. The Carters disapproved of the match, as the groom was a former drug store clerk. This was not a suitable job for well-to-do families at the time. The marriage produced a son.
Gloria returned to Georgia in 1949 from Texas, and her father, Earl Carter, was upset by the brutal beatings Gloria suffered at the hands of her husband. With the help of her father, Gloria had her marriage annulled in 1949. On December 15, 1950, Carter-Hardy married Walter Guy Spann, who is a farmer from Webster County, Georgia, and he adopted the son of her first marriage. Walter and Gloria Spann produced no children of their own together.
Gloria Carter Spann’s children
Gloria had a son named William Everett (Hardy) Spann, who was born in 1946 and passed away in 1997, at the age of 51.
Gloria Carter Spann’s parents
Gloria was the second of four children, and the first daughter born to James Earl Carter, Sr., and Lillian Gordy Carter and was 2 years younger than her brother, Jimmy.
Gloria Carter Spann siblings
Gloria is not the only child of her parents. She had three siblings, her older brother Jimmy is the only surviving child left, and all the other two died of pancreatic cancer. Her sister Ruth Stapleton was born in 1929 and passed away in 1983, and his brother Billy Carter was born in 1937 and passed away in 1988.
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