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Thirteen-year-old Rosalynn helped her mother with the housekeeping and caring for her siblings and grandfather. She graduated as valedictorian from Plains High School in 1944 and from Georgia Southwestern College in 1946. In 1946, she married Jimmy Carter, who had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. Mrs.
Nov 27, 2023 · Rosalynn Carter, who spent most of her life working on humanitarian projects alongside her husband and was a fierce advocate of mental health reform and destigmatizing mental illness, died on ...
Nov 19, 2023 · Rosalynn Carter, who as first lady worked tirelessly on behalf of mental health reform and professionalized the role of the president’s spouse, died Sunday at the age of 96.
Nov 19, 2023 · Rosalynn Carter, a close political and policy adviser to her husband, President Jimmy Carter, who created the modern Office of the First Lady and advocated for better treatment of the mentally ill ...
Rosalynn Carter. Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains, Georgia, on August 18, 1927, to Allethea “Allie” and Wilburn Edgar Smith. As the oldest child, Rosalynn helped her mother manage the household and raise her three siblings following Wilburn’s death when she was thirteen years old. 1 In 1944, she graduated from Plains High School ...
Nov 28, 2023 · Rosalynn Carter was a lot of things — a grandmother, an adventurer, and someone with “unshakable strength,” her grandson, Jason Carter, said at a tribute service in her honor on Tuesday.
Nov 20, 2023 · Branden Camp/AP. Rosalynn Carter, the wife of former President Jimmy Carter and a longtime mental health advocate and humanitarian, died on Sunday in her home in Plains, Ga., surrounded by family ...
