Remember former President Jimmy Carter's run for governor in 1966? FOX 5 I-Team reporter Johnny Edwards spoke to the son of his opponent, Garland Byrd. Take a look back at their historic campaigns.

The Carters, who long put their faith into action, were in Milwaukee in June 1989 as part of a Habitat for Humanity project building homes. They, along with scores of volunteers, hammered, sawed and painted to construct six homes near North 23rd and West Walnut streets.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter's 77-year marriage has become part of the couple's political lore. "Yours is a love like everyone would wish that they would have," US broadcasting star Oprah Winfrey told the former president in 2015.

"From the Plains Peanut Festival to the Governor’s Mansion, to the White House—and to communities around the globe—they remained grounded and humble, and Plains always remained home in their hearts.”

Jimmy Carter also considered his wife his muse. "She'd smile, and birds would feel that they no longer had to sing, or it may be I failed to hear their song," Jimmy Carter wrote in a poem titled "Rosalynn" from his 1995 book " Always a Reckoning and Other Poems ."

Carter and his wife Rosalynn were advocates for affordable housing. According to Habitat for Humanity, they helped build, renovate, or repair more than 4,447 homes in 14 countries. “Former president Jimmy Carter, he really wanted to see families in affordable housing,” Skipper said.

The San Antonio affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, one of the oldest and most active chapters in the nearly 50 years of the global affordable-housing network, is raising funds for a “tribute home” to be built this year in memory of President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn.

Former President Jimmy Carter's casket will arrive at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georiga on Saturday as part of his funeral procession. CBS News' Robert Costa and Nikole Killion report.

Granville Sentinel columnist Jeff Gill recalls a meaningful conversation he had with Rosalynn Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter, 20 years ago.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years, the longest-married presidential couple in American history.