James Earl Carter Jr. (1924-)

James Earl Carter Jr. was born on the 1st October 1924 to James Earl Carter Sr. (1894-1953) and Bessie Lillian Gordy (1898-1983) in a hospital in Plains, Georgia (United States). He started to date Eleanor Rosalynn Smith (1927-) in 1945, and married a year later, on the 7th July 1946 in his home town of Plains. Together they had four children, John William (1947-), James III (1950), Donnel Jeffrey (1952-) and Amy Lynn (1967-). He was elected president of the United States in 1977, and stayed in office for four years, until 1981.