Jimmy Carter, the former US president, died at the age of 100. Before losing his 77-year wife, Roselynn Smith in November of 2024, the 39th President of the United States celebrated his final birthday on October 1, 2024. Between 1977 and 1981, he served in the White House.
He was a Democrat who was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1967 to 1971.
Carter lived to be 100 years old, making him the longest-serving president in American history.
Carter was raised in Plains, Georgia, where he was born. After completing the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, he enlisted in the submarine service of the United States Navy.
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After serving in the military, Carter came home and resurrected his family’s peanut farm. Carter opposed racial segregation, backed the burgeoning civil rights movement, and joined the Democratic Party as an activist.
He was the governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 after serving in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. In the 1976 presidential election, Carter, a dark horse who was not well-known outside of Georgia, secured the Democratic nomination and defeated incumbent Republican Gerald Ford by a slim margin.
