 The relocation allowed a supportive uncle to provide guidance to young Carter, who was enrolled into the Riverside Military Academy, where he stayed until the completion of 10th grade.Biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies speculated that the death of William Carter left James with an approach to life that was both conservative and cautious.In a 1980 address to the Democratic National Committee, Jimmy Carter stated that his father had continued a trend set by previous generations of the Carter family by not finishing high school.