Jimmy Carter was introduced to Chicago at a South Shore church during the 1976 presidential campaign. After leaving the White House, he returned to work on a Habitat for Humanity home-building project in West Garfield Park.
The ceremonies will conclude in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried beside his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, who passed away in 2023. Together, the Carters had long planned their modest resting place in Plains, where they began their lives together on a peanut farm.
Supporters and friends of President Jimmy Carter and five living U.S. presidents will attend his funeral Thursday at Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral.
ATLANTA — Officials at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta have announced that the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum will be open with free admission today beginning at 9:30 a.m. for the National Day of Mourning. Mourners are welcome to visit, remember President Carter, and pay their respects.
President Joe Biden appointed Jan. 9, as a day of mourning for Jimmy Carter for people to 'pay homage to the memory' of the former president.
Former President Jimmy Carter will lie in state at the US Capitol before his state funeral in Washington, DC, and burial in Georgia.
President Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter's 1976 presidential campaign, will eulogize his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office.
Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism.
Among some of the unexpected distinctions that have popped up in social media threads after seeing old photos of Carter is he was a hottie.
Devoutness wasn't always an important feature in a presidential candidate. That all changed after Carter professed his “born again” Christianity.
Jimmy Carter has a total number of four children with Rosalynn Carter, the youngest being their only daughter, Amy Carter. Here's how old she is now.