![]() ![]() ![]() The same model they used in Georgia revolutionizes presidential campaigning, with Rosalynn as Jimmy's top surrogate. 1975-76: She leads the "Peanut Brigade" of Carter family, friends and supporters from Georgia who spread out across Iowa and other key nominating states to widen the campaign's person-to-person reach. But their model of campaigning separately would be key to winning four years later and to capturing the presidency in 1976. 1966: Rosalynn begins campaigning on her own for the first-time during Jimmy's first run for Georgia governor, a race he loses. ![]() 1962: She helps Jimmy campaign for state Senate, an office he would win in a contested election that was ultimately settled in court. 1955: She begins helping Jimmy in the farm warehouse she soon "knew more on paper about the business than he did," she recalled ahead of their 75th anniversary. 1946-1953: Rosalynn manages the Carter household while Jimmy serves in the Navy's nuclear submarine program, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. They would have four children: John William ("Jack"), born 1947 James Earl III ("Chip"), 1950 Donnel Jeffrey, 1952 and Amy Lynn, 1967. July 7, 1946: She marries Jimmy at Plains Methodist Church, her childhood congregation. Spring 1946: She graduates from Georgia Southwestern College. 1945: She begins dating Jimmy Carter, now a Naval Academy midshipman and the brother of her close friend, Ruth Carter. 1940: Rosalynn's father dies, leaving her to help her mother raise her younger siblings. Late August 1927: "Miss Lillian" Carter, a neighbor and nurse who delivered Rosalynn, brings her son, Jimmy, nearly 3 years old, to meet the new baby. She is the daughter of Wilburn Edgar Smith, a mechanic, and Allie Murray Smith, a seamstress and postal worker. 18, 1927: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith is born at her family home in Plains, Georgia. Landmarks and notable events in the life of former U.S. ![]()
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