Jimmy Carter (October 1, 1924) politician and former president of the United States. He was born in Plains, near Americus, Georgia, United States. His birth name is James Earl Carter, Jr. He was part of the Democratic Party and was the thirty-ninth president of the United States in the...
Carter's final year in office was beset by crisis after the Islamic revolution in Iran and the seizure ofdozens of American hostagesat the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979. A rescue mission he approved ended in failure. The hostages were finally released on Jan. 20, 1981, the day...
Inflation helped drive Carter from office, as it has dogged President Joe Biden. The average gallon in 1980, Carter’s last full year in office, was about $3.25 when adjusted for inflation. That's just 3 cents more than AAA's current national average. From suffragettes to Kamala Harris The...
Carter knew he wanted to go to Annapolis since childhood. He encountered a difficult "plebe" year in 1943, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy finishing 59th of a class of 820 in 1946. Unhappy with sea duty on the Wyoming and Mississippi, he went to submarine school, finishing ...
Former President Jimmy Carter gives a lecture in 2016. Photo: Getty Images Few Americans make it that far: Census Bureau data shows just 0.03% of the population — about 101,000 people — are (or were) 100 this year. But that is projected t...
Carter was 14 when Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first presidential television appearance. Warren Harding became the first radio president two years before Carter's birth. Attention shoppers There was no Amazon Prime in 1924, but you could order a build-it-yourself house from a catalog....
2015-8-12 Former US President Jimmy Carter reveals that he has cancer The meaning of the name Carter: Driver Of A Cart FUN FACTS US President Jimmy Carter were born on Wednesday, in a leap year, birthstone is Opal, the seaon was Fall in the Chinese year of Rat, it is 273 days un...
Rev. Andrew Young, a 92-year-old civil rights icon and close aide of Martin Luther King, Jr., called Carter a "miracle." "It's still hard for me to understand how you could get to be president from Plains, Georgia," Young said. ...
Inside Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s 77-Year Love Like her husband, Rosalynn also grew up in Plains, Georgia. They first met as children; Jimmy’s mother, Lillian, was one of the nurses who helped deliver Rosalynn in 1927, and she took her son to check up on the infant and her moth...
Former President Jimmy Carter speaks at the funeral for Coretta Scott King, with then-President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush looking on, at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, on Feb. 7, 2006.RIC FELD/AFP via Getty Images ...