"I love you the goodest," Biography.com reported. "The best thing I ever did was marrying Rosalynn," Jimmy said during an interview at The Carter Center in 2015. "That's the pinnacle of my life." ...

FAMILY: Wife, Rosalynn Smith Carter, married July 7, 1946 until her death Nov. 19, 2023. They had three sons, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip), Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff); a daughter ...

— BIRTH NAME: James Earl Carter, Jr. — BORN: Oct. 1, 1924, at the Wise Clinic in Plains, Georgia, the first U.S. president born in a hospital. He would become the first president to live for an entire ...

the second nuclear submarine," as written in Jimmy Carter's biography. Long before Carter became president, he married Rosalynn Smith in July 1946. In 1953, Carter's father died, and he resigned ...

Carter grew up in the Baptist church, according to Bourne's biography. Rosalynn rejected his first proposal, telling Carter she promised her father she would finish college before marriage.

But I was also flooded with personal memories—not just of my time with Carter and his family but of the whole process of trying to write a biography of a formidable, complex man who became a ...