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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>[http://www.biography.com/articles/Rosalynn-Carter-9240052 Rosalynn Carter Biography]</ref> was a cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, [[Maryland]].<ref>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/rosalynncarter Rosalynn Smith Carter]</ref> The couple married at the Plains Methodist Church on July 7, 1946 and moved to Norfolk, [[Virginia]], Carter's first military posting.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/articles/Rosalynn-Carter-9240052 Rosalynn Carter Biography]</ref> 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>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/rosalynncarter Rosalynn Smith Carter]</ref><ref>[http://www.biography.com/articles/Rosalynn-Carter-9240052 Rosalynn Carter Biography]</ref> 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>[http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/rosalynncarter Rosalynn Smith Carter]</ref>
==First Lady of Georgia==
==First Lady of Georgia==
==First Lady of the United States==
==First Lady of the United States==