Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn celebrate the 75th anniversary of their wedding today. The Carters were married in 1946, one year after they met. At the time, the future president was a student at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He was home in Plains, Georgia for a visit when his sister set him up him with Eleanor Rosalynn Smith for a date. Carter won the presidential vote in 1976 and served as the country’s 39th president for one term. He was defeated by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 election. Carter is 96 years old and his wife is 93. At 96, Carter has lived the longest of any of America’s 45 presidents. Carter has often said the greatest decision he ever made was asking Rosalynn to marry him.