- First Lady of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975.
- She and Rosalynn Carter worked to establish a nonprofit organization, Every Child By Two (now called Vaccinate Your Family), to increase education efforts concerning vaccine-preventable illnesses.
- She was an advocate for childhood immunizations and for limiting nuclear arms proliferation.
- She grew up on a farm that had no electricity for years. She later lived in Ames, Iowa, and attended Iowa State University, a fine arts institute in Chicago, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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