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James Earl Carter, Sr. was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1953, as a Democrat, and served briefly representing Sumter County until his death later that year He died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 58.
Feb 25, 2023 · Carter went on to serve in the US Navy and was sworn in as president in 1977. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis, Carter, now 98, is receiving hospice care at home. Jimmy Carter was born on October...
Dec 1, 1989 · Gloria Carter Spann, the last surviving sibling of former President Jimmy Carter, has been found to be suffering from pancreatic cancer, the same disease that killed their father, sister and...
After attending Riverside Military Academy and serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps during World War I, he opened a grocery store on Main Street in Plains, Georgia. He died of pancreatic cancer at age 58. His wife and three of his four children also died of pancreatic cancer. [1]
Nov 16, 2010 · Rising from his roots as a peanut farmer's son, Jimmy Carter had a troubled one-term presidency — and then found a long and successful career as a peace activist. Take a look back at his life.
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot to death as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected president; he was the youngest to die.
Mar 7, 1990 · It was in December that Mrs. Spann was found to be suffering from the disease, which killed her father, James Earl Carter; her sister, Ruth Stapleton, and her other brother, Billy.
