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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 ...
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Mar 28, 2024 · Jimmy Carter is a man of many milestones -- and the list keeps growing. Late last week, the former president and Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian marked another year as the longest lived ex ...
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Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), 39th president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia. In 1982, Carter founded The Carter Center, a non-governmental and non-profit organization with the purpose of advancing human rights and alleviating human suffering, including helping improve the quality of life for people in more than 80 countries.
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- Camp David Accords
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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...
Sep 21, 2023 · Ms. Fuller said her uncle was aware of his own upcoming birthday. “He wants to reach 99, I know that,” she said. “The last month has been different for him,” she added, but “I am just ...
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. In the foreign affairs arena, he ...
Feb 17, 2024 · Jimmy Carter’s Long Goodbye. The former president is on the verge of having spent a year in hospice care, once again confounding expectations in a life that has lasted nearly a century. Before ...
