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==Marriage and family==

==Marriage and family==

Rosalynn started dating Jimmy Carter after her freshman year in college. Carter, the older brother of Rosalynn's best friend, <ref name="biography"/> was a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, [[Maryland]]. <ref name="whitehouse"/> The couple married at the Plains Methodist Church on July 7, 1946 and moved to Norfolk, [[Virginia]], Carter's first military posting. <ref name="biography"/> The Carters had four children: John William (born 1947 in Virginia), James Earl III (born 1950 in Hawaii), Donnel Jeffrey (born 1952 in Connecticut) and Amy Lynn (born 1967 in Georgia). <ref name="whitehouse"/><ref name="biography"/> When Jimmy Carter's father died in 1953, he left the Navy and the family returned to Plains, where Carter farmed peanuts and Rosalynn handled the bookkeeping for the farm. <ref name="whitehouse"/>

Rosalynn started dating Jimmy Carter after her freshman year in college. Carter, the older brother of Rosalynn's best friend,<ref name="biography"/> was a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, [[Maryland]].<ref name="whitehouse"/> The couple married at the Plains Methodist Church on July 7, 1946 and moved to Norfolk, [[Virginia]], Carter's first military posting.<ref name="biography"/> The Carters had four children: John William (born 1947 in Virginia), James Earl III (born 1950 in Hawaii), Donnel Jeffrey (born 1952 in Connecticut) and Amy Lynn (born 1967 in Georgia).<ref name="whitehouse"/><ref name="biography"/> When Jimmy Carter's father died in 1953, he left the Navy and the family returned to Plains, where Carter farmed peanuts and Rosalynn handled the bookkeeping for the farm.<ref name="whitehouse"/>

==First Lady of Georgia==

==First Lady of Georgia==

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