ASPEN, CO - JUNE 23: Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks with President Jimmy Carter and Aspen Institute president and CEO Walter Isaacson during the McCloskey Speaker Series on June 23, 2015 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Image Former first lady Rosalynn Carter is celebrating her 95th birthday on Thursday.Born in Plains, Georgia, on Aug.
18, 1927, Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was the oldest of four children. After her father died when she was 13, she worked with her mother making dresses and caring for her siblings while remaining in school.
She graduated and enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus.It was at college that Smith started dating a Navy recruit studying at the U.S.
Naval Academy in Maryland. His name was Jimmy Carter.Thursday was former first lady Rosalynn Carter's 95th birthday. She was honored in Atlanta with special message above the Georgia's Own Credit Union building.One year later, on July 7, 1946, she walked down the aisle of Plains Methodist Church in their hometown and said "I do."They went on to lead lives of civil service from the Gold Dome of Georgia to the White House and beyond.The couple has not been too public in the past few years.