Lillian Gordy Carter

President James Carter James Earl Carter, Jr. was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. As a child he was very studious and since his parents were religious so was he. The family belonged to the Plains Baptist Church where he also attended Sunday school. Carter went to the all-white Plains High School. In 1941 he became the first person on his family?s side to graduate high school. James began to study engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College, but had later joined the Naval ROTC program and continued to study engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He then got accepted into a highly competitive Naval Academy in 1943, in which he graduated top ten percent of his class in 1946, which is also the year he had married his wife, Rosalynn Smith.