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Nov 9, 2009 · Jimmy Carter served as the 39th U.S. president and faced formidable challenges, including a major energy crisis as well as high inflation and unemployment.
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James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.
The President in the year 1979 was Jimmy Carter. He was the 39th President of the United States. He took office on January 20, 1977 and left office on January 20, 1981. He was followed by Ronald Reagan.
The incumbent president is Joe Biden, who assumed office on January 20, 2021. The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College.
Democrat Jimmy Carter served as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Carter was unable to solve most of the problems plaguing the country during his administration, including an ailing economy and a continuing energy crisis.
- He won it for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to p...
- He was the first president since Herbert Hoover in 1932, who had been elected (i.e. hadn't become president by being vice president and the preside...
- The Carter presidency was a hopeful time. After the scandal of the corrupt Nixon administration, and a brief breather with Gerald Ford as president...
- No, he was a Conservative. Not a very good one though.
Jimmy Carter's tenure as the 39th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1977, and ended on January 20, 1981. Carter, a Democrat from Georgia, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent president Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
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November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
