Plains, GA…Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. His father, James Earl Carter, Sr., was a farmer and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, a registered nurse.
He was educated in the public school of Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became a submariner, serving in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and rising to the rank of lieutenant. Chosen by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear submarine program, he was assigned to Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College in reactor technology and nuclear physics and served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.
On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. When his father died in 1953, he resigned his naval commission and returned with his family to Georgia. He took over the Carter farms, and he and Rosalynn operated Carter’s Warehouse, a general-purpose seed and farm supply company in Plains. He quickly became a leader of the community, serving on county boards supervising education, the hospital authority, and the library. In 1962 he won election to the Georgia Senate. He lost his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the next election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on January 12, 1971. He was the Democratic National Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional and gubernatorial elections.
President Jimmy Carter
On December 12, 1974, he announced his candidacy for president of the United States. He won his party’s nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, and was elected president on November 2, 1976.
Jimmy Carter served as president from January 20, 1977 to January 20, 1981. Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration included the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. He championed human rights throughout the world. On the domestic side, the administration’s achievements included a comprehensive energy program conducted by a new Department of Energy; deregulation in energy, transportation, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
Books & Accomplishments
Mr. Carter is the author of 32 books, many of which are now in revised editions: Why Not the Best? 1975, 1996; A Government as Good as Its People, 1977, 1996; Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, 1982, 1995; Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility, 1984, 2003; The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East, 1985, 1993, 2007; Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, written with Rosalynn Carter, 1987, 1995; An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections, 1988, 1994; Turning Point: A Candidate, a State, and a Nation Come of Age, 1992; Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation, 1993, 1995; Always a Reckoning, and other Poems, 1995; The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer, illustrated by Amy Carter, 1995; Living Faith, 1996; Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith, 1997; The Virtues of Aging, 1998; An Hour before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood, 2001; Christmas in Plains: Memories, 2001; The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, 2002; The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War, 2003; Sharing Good Times, 2004; Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis, 2005; Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, 2006, 2007; Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope, 2007; A Remarkable Mother, 2008; We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, 2009; White House Diary, 2010; Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President, 2011; as general editor, NIV Lessons from the Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter, 2012; A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, 2014; The Paintings of Jimmy Carter, 2014; A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, 2015; The Craftsmanship of Jimmy Carter, 2018; and Faith: A Journey for All, 2018.
In 1982, he became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and founded The Carter Center. Actively guided by President Carter, the nonpartisan and nonprofit Center addresses national and international issues of public policy. Carter Center staff and associates join with President Carter in efforts to resolve conflict, promote democracy, protect human rights, and prevent disease and other afflictions. The Center has spearheaded the international effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease, which is poised to be the second human disease in history to be eradicated.
President Carter and The Carter Center have engaged in conflict mediation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), North Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Great Lakes region of Africa (1995-96), Sudan and Uganda (1999), Venezuela (2002-2003), Nepal (2004-2008), Ecuador and Colombia (2008), and the Middle East (2003-present). Under his leadership The Carter Center has sent 107 election-observation missions to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. These include Panama (1989), Nicaragua (1990), China (1997), Nigeria (1998), Indonesia (1999), East Timor (1999), Mexico (2000), Guatemala (2003), Venezuela (2004), Ethiopia (2005), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006), Nepal (2008), Lebanon (2009), Sudan (2010), Tunisia (2011), Egypt (2011-2012), Kenya (2013), Mozambique (2014), Guyana (2015), Myanmar (2016), and Liberia (2017).
The permanent facilities of The Carter Presidential Center were dedicated in October 1986, and include the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, administered by the National Archives. Also open to visitors is the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains, administered by the National Park Service.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes for themselves. Since 2007, President Carter also has served as a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders. He teaches Sunday school and is a deacon in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains. For recreation, he enjoys fly-fishing, woodworking, and swimming. The Carters have three sons, one daughter, nine grandsons (one deceased), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and eight great-granddaughters.
On December 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 to Mr. Carter “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development”.
Source = Carter Library
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What took you so long Jimmy! Hope Joe’s next, a good democrat is a dead democrat.
President Jimmy Carter was a very good man, he had a heart of gold as did his wife. He certainly is not like Biden or Trump.
President Carter did do good in the WH, as Trump has, but Biden did far worse, not only was he hustling his name as President of our country to make money under the table, but he also did so as our VP for 8 years, that’s why Hunter was pardoned starting from Joe’s VP time. Making matters worse, Biden didn’t give a Damn about our Constitution or Americans Rights, is a Bigot, used our DoJ as his personal Gustapo to go after his rivals.
RIP President Carter and be happily with your wife again
President Carter, May You Rest In Peace.
Knowing that President Biden is going down as the worst potus, at the very least, in Modern History. At least you tried your hardest to help America and her people. Unlike the president we have now, who’s goal was to enrich his family from our Enemies, and to help the democrat party and elite, while ignoring the everyday working American.
At least Jimmy can hold his head high knowing he was the worst president ever after all 🙂
I’m going to have a Billy Beer.
Olde Joey. That pOS. Next. We should thank someone.
Kind, decent man and President helping so many as a Habitat For Humanity volunteer – nothing like the scum trash we have coming in in January, the idolized convicted felon out to dismantle and destroy our government – just pathetic dangerous garbage.
Thank You Jimmy for your hard work on Live Oak Dr. The 8th Wonder Land
^^ That Place Is A Shit Hole
Jimmy Carter did nothing for this country absolutely nothing!
He hammered a few nails for a photo opt!
Carter got are hostages out of Iran.
Where’s Joe ? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
To set the record straight: JC was a terrible president, a wonderful Christian Man, Joie was a horrible president a legalized criminal, looking out for himself and his family members who are and were complete idiots, used his office to make illegal monies, and could care less about those below him! In other words,a LOSER! I and many of you, lived through JC’s presidency, most all of us have lived through Joies, the world was a better place back when JC was prez more respectful, today it’s like a mess everywhere, and thank goodness Joie or Kamala didn’t win. HAPPY NEW YEAR, LETS SEE WHAT THE ORANGE ONE BRINGS!
LET GOOD TIMES ROLL AGAIN
The same folks who denigrate Carter also praise Reagan.
A comparison shows Carter had none in his administration convicted of crimes, and Reagan had many, one of the most corrupt administration America has had.
Reagan had a deal with Iran to keep the US hostages until he was inaugurated, this was the part of the Iran Contra scandal.
He used monies paid by Iran to him in secret, and bought weapons for the Contras in Nicaragua.
Carter’s denigration was kept alive by Republicans, because the party is only about the wealthy and having power to be wealthier.
Carter was about service to America, and all citizens around the world. His anti Guinea worm campaign in Africa and example , and his helping Habitat for Humanity in America.
Reagan also started the decline of the middle class in America, lowering their standard of living, by attacking labor unions, and legislation affecting this loss of the living standards.
A tally of Republican administrations list of convicted criminals, and the Democrats shows all too well the Republicans are a party of criminal activity, corruption easily see by the facts.
Sadly the Republican faithful don’t realize they are being played, the next 4 years sadly will be marked again by fraud, greed, and the loss of what made America great.
^^ Another Fuking Sore Loser, what put of you lost you don’t understand?
Joe needs to be with Jimmy.
MAGA denial of truth , typical.
Facts on Biden economy soon to be trashed look at history.
Stock market high for last 2 years
Inflation under control
Unemployment low
Infrastructure projects under construction
Nat Debt going down
Wages increased
Living standards rose.
History shows repeatedly that Democrats hand the Republicans a good economy, they F it up over and over history, facts data. I know you magats don’t like truth. Your loss.
Time to fire and take away every federal workers pension that isn’t going into work!
Time to boot every illegal that broke our laws and came here illegally!
Time to send the “donkey party” to the back of our political system with their “woke BS”!
Time to put parents in jail that think it’s okay to change their children’s sex with surgery or chemicals!
Time to make “choice” a part of buying cars, appliances, outdoor tools, like it has been since I was born!
Time to use “COMMON SENSE”
Time to take care of our veterans instead of drug addicts, and people that smoked pot, ditched classes and learned to be lazy from ignorant parents!
GET BUSY AMERICA, WAKE THE HELL UP, DO SOMETHING POSITIVE FOR OTHERS INSTEAD OF YOURSELF, APPRECIATE OUR COUNTRY, APPRECIATE SOMEONE BESIDE YOURSELF, GET BUSY”!
Unfortunately the convicted felon donald cannot reverse history and has no idea what common sense is.
Anybody watching the two fools hosting CNN’s New Years program?
One is drunk, the other, a full Tard, are they supposed to be a couple? If so, who’s the male? They are both great examples of what CNN has become, “LOST!”
Not a great president. but a great human being.