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Rosalynn Carter

1927 - 2023

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Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( ROH-zə-lin; née Smith; August 18, 1927 – November 19, 2023) was an American activist and humanitarian who served as the first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, as the wife of President Jimmy Carter. Throughout her decades of public service, she was a leading advocate for women's rights and mental health. Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia, graduated as valedictorian of Plains High School, and soon after attended Georgia Southwestern College, where she graduated in 1946. She first became attracted to her future husband, also from Plains, after seeing a picture of him in his U.S. Naval Academy uniform, and they married in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rosalynn Carter is the 139th most popular companion (up from 170th in 2019), the 681st most popular biography from United States (up from 729th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Companion.

Rosalynn Carter is most famous for being the wife of former President Jimmy Carter and for her work as a mental health advocate.

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Among companions, Rosalynn Carter ranks 139 out of 784. Before her are Halime Hatun, Constance, Queen of Sicily, Queen Anne of Romania, Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, and Catherine of Austria, Queen of Portugal. After her are Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Elena of Montenegro, Constance of Aragon, Sita, Gala Dalí, and Caroline of Baden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Rosalynn Carter ranks 30. Before her are Maurice Béjart, Manfred Eigen, Martin Lewis Perl, Albert Uderzo, George Andrew Olah, and John McCarthy. After her are Janet Leigh, Robert Hossein, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Simone Veil, Gilbert Bécaud, and Theodore Maiman. Among people deceased in 2023, Rosalynn Carter ranks 26. Before her are Robert Lucas Jr., Harald zur Hausen, Ted Kaczynski, Fernando Botero, Louise Glück, and Paul Berg. After her are Paco Rabanne, Pat Robertson, Helmut Berger, Sixto Rodriguez, Jacques Delors, and The Iron Sheik.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rosalynn Carter ranks 681 out of 20,380. Before her are James Avery (1945), Ralph Lauren (1939), Dennis Hopper (1936), Kevin Spacey (1959), Sydney Chaplin (1926), and John McCarthy (1927). After her are Paul Ekman (1934), Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Chris Pratt (1979), John Waters (1946), Jerome Isaac Friedman (1930), and Sally Field (1946).

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Among companions born in United States, Rosalynn Carter ranks 5. Before her are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929), Priscilla Presley (1945), Olympias (-375), and Neilia Hunter Biden (1942). After her are Martha Washington (1731), Linda McCartney (1941), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Mary Todd Lincoln (1818), and Ellen Axson Wilson (1860).

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