Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer whose vision of an “competent and compassionate” government has died, has died. To the White House, according to local media, and he passed away today, Sunday, at the age of 100.
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Jimmy Carter
The Atlanta Journal Constitution announced today, Sunday, the news of his death.
It comes. Carter’s death after his wife, Rosalynn, passed away on November 19, 2023, at the age of 96, with her family by her side at Carter’s home in Plains, Georgia, just days after she entered care. The elderly.
Carter and his wife
The late former president himself entered a nursing home in February 2023. Carter survived for years after a "small mass" of his liver in early August 2015, and he announced later that month that he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body.
The Carter family had a history of cancer The former president lost his father, brother, and two sisters to pancreatic cancer.
His mother also suffered from breast cancer, which later spread to The pancreas.
Jason Carter, Carter’s grandson, announced last May that he believed the former president was “nearing the end of his life.” The journey of his life, but the former president stayed longer.
The soft-spoken leader with a distinctive Georgia accent saw his only term in the Oval Office surrounded by an economic slowdown at home and a crisis. Hostages abroad.
His post-presidential life was marked by a clear devotion to service, but also by a series of sometimes controversial moves as he continued to delve into foreign affairs, especially regarding Carter met with the leadership of the representative of the Palestinian Hamas movement in 2009 and 2015. He rebuked Israel for its operations against Hamas in 2014, saying that “there is no justification in the world for what Israel is doing.”
James Earl Carter, Jr. was born in 1924 in Plains, Georgia.
Plains was a farming town and Carter’s father was a farmer, a background that helped instill in him a love of the land — and the working and lower classes who farm it — that would follow him throughout his life Personal and professional.
But Carter initially sought a path beyond the wasteland of the plains, and after attending the U.S. Naval Academy, he served as a submariner in the Navy after World War Second, he eventually achieved the rank of lieutenant.
Carter married Rosalynn Smith, a Plains City native, in 1946, the same year he graduated from the academy.
After Carter’s father died in 1953, Carter resigned his position in the Navy and returned to his roots with Rosalynn in Plains. Carter took over the family farm while Rosalynn ran a farm equipment supply company in their small Georgia town.
But it wasn’t long before Carter left the farm fields behind again. This time, he began a career in politics that brought him to the highest position in the country in just 14 years.
Carter won the Senate elections. In Georgia in general 1962, and after an unsuccessful bid for governor in 1966, he became governor in 1971.
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Carter became national leader of the Democratic Party and won the 1976 presidential election against President Gerald Ford, riding A wave of popular discontent with former President Richard Nixon – and the pardon that Ford granted to Nixon.
While he was in the White House, Carter established full diplomatic relations with China and led negotiations on a nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviet Union. Locally, he led numerous conservation efforts, displaying the same love of nature as president as he did when he was a young farmer in Plains.
He cited the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords that brought peace between Egypt and Israel among his greatest personal accomplishments.
He told the Washington Post in 2014: "We focused on… Peace.
We did not fire a single bullet or throw a bomb at anyone."
But it was not always easy to keep the peace, and a perceived lack of force in dealing with bad actors likely contributed to It contributed to his lopsided defeat in 1980 by Ronald Reagan.
The last fourteen months of his presidency were dominated by the Iran hostage crisis. Following the revolution in the country, the new government took 52 American hostages. Carter was never able to recover the detained Americans or negotiate their release.
In clear disregard, Iran released 52 American hostages after holding them for 444 days – on the same day that Carter left office.
Although Carter established the Department of Education and the Department of Energy, two government bureaucracies that have since become popular targets for Republicans, the crisis Energy issues nationwide have been a detriment to his tenure. Shots of gasoline lines and high gasoline prices are a staple feature of any documentary or discussion of the late 1970s.
After leaving the White House, Carter, who has written 28 books, was appointed , a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta and founded the Carter Center, a nonprofit organization focused on national and international public policy. In his life after founding the organization in 1982.
Carter said about the center last October: “This beautiful place on earth that has set ethical and moral standards that embody what should be He has a superpower like America.”
Carter remembers the manual labor he did in his youth in Plains, and was often seen volunteering and collecting donations for Habitat for Humanity. , and helps build homes for those in need.
Carter was also a member of the Elders, a group of independent world leaders no longer in politics, which at one time included President South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, Irish President Mary Robinson, and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
In his spare time, Carter, a deeply religious man, served As a deacon at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, he enjoys fishing, running, and carpentry.
Carter leaves behind four children, 12 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren.
