who was the first u.s. president to have been born in a hospital
A+E Networks. On this day in 1924, future President James Earl Carter is born in Plains, Georgia. Carter, who preferred to be called âJimmy,â was the son of a peanut farmer and was the first president to be born in a hospital. Carter was raised a devoted Southern Baptist and graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1946. He married Rosalynn Smith later that year.