President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter celebrate 74 years of marriage
Amanda Cochran, Digital Special Projects Manager
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HOUSTON – KPRC 2 would like to congratulate former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter on 74 years of marriage.
The couple wed on July 7, 1946.
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The 39th former president is now 95 years old. He is the oldest-living president in U.S. history.
The Carters have the longest marriage of any presidential couple. The previous record holders were Houston-based couple George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. They were married for 73 years and 102 days until Barbara’s 2018 death.
Here are a few images from their life together.
Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, left, and his husband Chasten Buttigieg, second from the right, meet with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter at the Buffalo Cafe in Plains, Ga., Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)Rosalynn Carter Carter made a campaign promise to get her husband Jimmy to establish a council on mental health. This came to fruition once she was in the White House. Although she only had an honorary role with the council, she used her positionJimmy Carter gets his bars pinned on by his wife Rosalynn, left and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Carter at the U.S. Naval Academy in this undated photo.Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter, left, sit as guests of Maranatha Baptist Church come and go to have their photo made with them, after Jimmy taught Sunday school there, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library featured a number of photos of the couple throughout their years together.
President and Mrs Carter celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary (their first in the White House) with lunch on the...