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Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the devoted wife of the nation's 39th president and a tireless advocate for mental health care, has died.
The Carter Center confirmed that she died Sunday morning at her home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96.
The former first lady and former President Jimmy Carter were married for 77 years.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter said in a statement from the Carter Center. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
Throughout Jimmy Carter's career in politics, Rosalynn Carter was his most fervent supporter. She campaigned aggressively for him, energizing supporters and once admitted being more adamant about winning than her husband.
After her husband was elected president in 1976, Carter transformed the role of first lady into a full-time job.
She was the first presidential spouse to set up an office in the East Wing and hire a full staff. Many recalled Rosalynn Carter carrying a brief case filled with papers to the office every day.
She was a trusted adviser to the president, a participant in foreign and domestic affairs and often set up weekly meetings with Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office, Kate Anderson Brower, author of "First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies," told USA TODAY in 2018.
Carter traveled the world, promoting her own platform of improving mental health care and her husband's position on human rights. She lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment which granted legal gender equality to women and men.
Former colleagues, friends and observers described Carter as genuine, warm and selfless. Throughout much of her life, she epitomized the modern working mom and wife.
Brower said Carter cared more about helping people than materialistic things.
“I think she will be remembered as a strong, tough, disciplined woman who also is very kind and had a lot of empathy for other people,” Brower said.
Carter, 96, entered hospice care Friday after it was revealed she was diagnosed with dementia in May.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-201832933.html
The Carter Center confirmed that she died Sunday morning at her home in Plains, Georgia, at the age of 96.
The former first lady and former President Jimmy Carter were married for 77 years.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” Jimmy Carter said in a statement from the Carter Center. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
Throughout Jimmy Carter's career in politics, Rosalynn Carter was his most fervent supporter. She campaigned aggressively for him, energizing supporters and once admitted being more adamant about winning than her husband.
After her husband was elected president in 1976, Carter transformed the role of first lady into a full-time job.
She was the first presidential spouse to set up an office in the East Wing and hire a full staff. Many recalled Rosalynn Carter carrying a brief case filled with papers to the office every day.
She was a trusted adviser to the president, a participant in foreign and domestic affairs and often set up weekly meetings with Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office, Kate Anderson Brower, author of "First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies," told USA TODAY in 2018.
Carter traveled the world, promoting her own platform of improving mental health care and her husband's position on human rights. She lobbied for the Equal Rights Amendment which granted legal gender equality to women and men.
Former colleagues, friends and observers described Carter as genuine, warm and selfless. Throughout much of her life, she epitomized the modern working mom and wife.
Brower said Carter cared more about helping people than materialistic things.
“I think she will be remembered as a strong, tough, disciplined woman who also is very kind and had a lot of empathy for other people,” Brower said.
Carter, 96, entered hospice care Friday after it was revealed she was diagnosed with dementia in May.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-201832933.html
