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    President of the United States from 1977 to 1981

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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. At age 99, he is both the oldest living ...

  2. Mar 28, 2024 · Jimmy Carter is a man of many milestones -- and the list keeps growing. ... Having begun hospice care in February 2023, he celebrated his 99th birthday in October, ...

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  3. Oct 1, 2022 · Former President Jimmy Carter waves to the congregation after teaching Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, on April 28, 2019.

  4. Oct 1, 2023 · 6 min. PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds gathered in Jimmy Carter’s tiny hometown last weekend knew the former president hadn’t been seen in public this year. After seven months in hospice, on the ...

    • Jimmy Carter Today: Former President Reacts to Wife Rosalynn’S Death
    • Camp David Accords
    • Iran Hostage Crisis

    Former President Jimmy Carter, 99, is mourning the death of his beloved wife, Rosalynn Carter, who died on November 19 at age 96. Rosalynn passed away peacefully with her family by her side in the couple’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, according to a news releasefrom The Carter Center. The Carters were married longer than any other presidential coup...

    Carter’s foreign policy centered around a promise to make human rights a central concern in the United States’ relations with other countries. He suspended economic and military aid to Chile, El Salvador, and Nicaragua in protest of those regimes’ human rights abuses. But Carter’s most notable foreign policy achievement was his successful mediation...

    Probably the biggest factor in Carter’s declining political fortunes, however, was the Iranian Hostage Crisis. In November 1979, radical Iranian students seized the United States Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage. Carter’s failure to negotiate the hostages’ release, followed by a badly botched rescue mission, made him look like an impo...

  5. Oct 1, 2023 · Jimmy Carter defied all odds again by celebrating his 99th birthday on Sunday with family in Plains, Ga., as tributes to the former U.S. president poured in from world leaders and pop culture figures.

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  7. 4 days ago · Jimmy Carter with the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 2002. Jimmy Carter (born October 1, 1924, Plains, Georgia, U.S.) is the 39th president of the United States (1977–81), who served as the country’s chief executive during a time of serious problems at home and abroad. His perceived inability to deal successfully with those problems ...

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