When Eleanor Rosalynn Smith first laid eyes on Jimmy Carter ... there weren't many eligible young men around. "Our social life was bleak," she wrote in her 1984 autobiography First Lady From ...

Rather, it was falling for Eleanor Rosalynn Smith in 1945 and marrying her the following summer. The two met in their hometown of Plains, Georgia when Jimmy Carter, at the time a young midshipman ...

He saw Rosalynn Smith on the steps of a local Methodist church ... when she visited his sister Ruth and saw a photo of a young Jimmy. "I fell in love with that picture," she told the New York ...

Born in Plains, Georgia on Aug. 18, 1927, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was the oldest of four children. She worked as a shampoo girl at a hair salon when her father, Wilburn Edgar Smith, died in 1940.

He was the president of the United States and the governor of Georgia, but Jimmy Carter always said the "pinnacle" of his life was getting Eleanor Rosalynn Smith to marry him. Rosalynn and Jimmy ...

Jimmy Carter was 3 years old and Rosalynn Smith was a baby when they met for the first time. They were the longest-wed presidential couple in history, married for 77 years until Rosalynn Carter's ...

Home on leave from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1945, Carter’s sister, Ruth, fixed him up at the last minute with 17-year-old Rosalynn Smith. In the kitchen the next morning his mother asked him ...