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Jimmy Carter; Georgia's Senator and Governor who rose to be America's 39th President

Former President Jimmy Carter smiles as he is awarded the Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero by Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela during a ceremony at the Carter Center, Jan. 14, 2016, in Atlanta. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. [Courtesy, AP]

If consistency was a person, then that would most likely be Jimmy Carter. So much so that after his first date with Rosalynn Smith in 1945, Jimmy told his mother, "She's the girl I want to marry," They wed a year later, on July 7, 1946.

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