On Aug. 18, 1927, in the small town of Plains, Georgia, nurse Lillian Carter delivered a baby named Eleanor Rosalynn Smith — or Rosalynn, for short. The Carters were friends with the Smiths ...

Rosalynn Carter made mental health a major priority for the Carter Center, and that work is being continued across Georgia.

Carter was home from the Naval Academy and asked out young Eleanor Rosalynn Smith on the spot. They went to a movie together, and Carter recalls telling his mother the next morning that he was ...

WATCH: Funeral service for former first lady Rosalynn Carter in hometown of Plains, Georgia With her frail husband as a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest ...

The motorcade moved through downtown Plains, which spans just a few blocks, passing near the girlhood home of first lady Rosalynn Smith Carter, who died in November 2023 at the age of 96 ...

It was while attending the Academy that Carter fell in love with Rosalynn Smith, a friend of his sister’s. The pair married shortly after Carter’s graduation in 1946. They were inseparable ...

Young Jimmy's connection to a woman who worked and lived on his family farm helped shape his advocacy for decades to come, Jason Carter writes in a letter shared with PEOPLE ...

Like other former first ladies, Melania Trump paid tribute to Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at age 96. But, as with anything related to the Trumps and their fraught relationships with current ...

Carter governed amid Cold War pressures ... That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state.

Rosalynn Carter was a major figure in her husband's campaigns and policy meetings. "She wanted to be more than a fashion plate and somebody who gave teas," says historian E. Stanly Godbold.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has worked for more than three decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world. She is an advocate for mental health, early childhood immunization, ...