Jimmy Carter

October 1, 1924 – December 29, 2024

Jimmy Carter was 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, he was the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975 and served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. As president he negotiated the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He lived to age 100, longer than any other U.S. president.

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Biography

Jimmy Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, in 1924. He served as a naval officer in the submarine service, then ran his family's peanut farm, and was Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.

He won the 1976 presidential election as an outsider after Watergate. As president (1977-1981) he brokered the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama by treaty and set up full relations with China. High inflation, the energy crisis and the Iran hostage crisis hurt his standing, and he lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980.

After leaving office he founded the Carter Center and worked on elections, disease eradication and housing, and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He died in December 2024 at the age of 100, the longest-lived US president.