Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married 77 years—the longest of any presidential couple. Here’s how they met, fell in love, and built a life together.

A eulogy delivered at President Jimmy Carter's funeral reflects on the love Jimmy Carter had for his wife, Rosalynn Carter.

As America says goodbye to Jimmy Carter, his daughter reads a love letter he wrote Rosalynn Carter 75 years ago

Former President Jimmy Carter, who will be laid to rest in a Jan. 9 funeral, and Rosalynn Carter fell in love, raised a family and spent most of their 77 years of marriage living in Plains, Ga.

President Jimmy Carter’s legacy of giving back endures in several nonprofits through which he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, worked in the almost 50 years after they left the White House.

President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s one and only presidential campaign in 1976, eulogized him at Wednesday’s state funeral in Washington. Carter had been receiving hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, since 2023 for an undisclosed illness.

"My mom spent most of her life in love with my dad," Amy says in a video shared by President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden

While former president Jimmy Carter certainly left his mark on America as the 39th president of the United States, one of his biggest legacies transcends the work of his presidential administration: his 77-year marriage to Rosalynn Carter.