Jimmy And Rosalynn Carter, 73 Years Of Marriage

July 8th, 2019

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn are shown on the video board after being spotted by the Kiss Cam on Valentine’s Day during an NBA game in Atlanta. The Carters got married on July 7, 1946, in their hometown of Plains, Georgia.

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Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, marked their 73rd wedding anniversary over the weekend.

They are approaching George and Barbara Bush as the longest-married presidential couple in U.S. history.

The Carters married on July 7, 1946, in a Methodist church in their hometown of Plains, Georgia, when he was 21 and she was 18.

Happy 73rd wedding anniversary to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter! They were married on July 7, 1946. This photo of them dancing is from a 1977 White House congressional ball.

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— The Carter Center (@CarterCenter) July 6, 2019

The Bushes wed on Jan. 6, 1945. They had been married 73 years and 111 days when Barbara Bush died in April 2018.

On Valentine’s Day this year, the Carters were caught on the “Kiss Cam” at the Atlanta Hawks game.

The Carters have three sons, one daughter, eight grandsons, three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.

Jimmy Carter gets his bars pinned on by his wife Rosalynn, left, and his mother, Lillian Carter at the U.S. Naval Academy in this undated photo. (Associated Press file)

Carter, a Democrat, was president from 1977 to 1981.

The 94-year-old, who broke his hip in May and had hip replacement surgery, recently returned to teaching Sunday school at the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains.