Jimmy Carter, former US president and tireless rights advocate, dies aged 100 – latest updates Broadly unpopular after losing to Ronald Reagan in 1980, Carter went on to have one of the most distinguished post-presidential careers.
The Carter Center is credited with helping to cure river blindness, trachoma and Guinea worm disease, which went from millions of cases in Africa and Asia in 1986 to a handful today.
In 1977 Carter completed a treaty that returned control of the Panama Canal to Panama – an agreement that had eluded his predecessors.
Carter traveled the world as a peace emissary, election observer and public health advocate.
He won admiration, and loathing, for his involvement in efforts for Middle East peace, urging a two-state solution in speeches and books including Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
