Rosalynn Carter parents: Allie M. Smith, Wilburn Edgar Smith

As the wife of President Jimmy Carter, American writer and activist Eleanor Rosalynn Carter held the office of the first lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981.

Carter has long been a prominent supporter of several issues, including mental health.

Rosalynn Carter parents: Allie M. Smith, Wilburn Edgar Smith

On August 18, 1927, in Plains, Georgia, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born.

Her parents were Wilburn Edgar Smith, an auto mechanic, bus driver, and farmer, and Frances Allethea “Allie” Murray Smith, a teacher, seamstress, and postal worker.

Smith subsequently claimed that she and her siblings were oblivious of their family’s poverty because, despite the fact that their family “didn’t have money,” “nobody else didn’t too, so as far as we thought, we were well off,” she said.

The neighbourhood where her family lived was centred around churches and schools, and the residents of Plains were friendly with one another. As there were no other females her age on her block, Smith spent her early youth playing with the guys. She liked to draw houses and was fascinated by aeroplanes, which made her think that she would one day become an architect.

Rosalynn’s father died of leukaemia when she was 13 in 1940.

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