When was Jimmy Carter president? What generation was he? What other former US leaders are still alive?

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When was Jimmy Carter president? What generation was he? What other former US leaders are still alive?
Author: William Mata
Published: Dec, 30 2024 11:15

Tributes are being paid to former US president Jimmy Carter who has died aged 100. The Democrat, who was in the Oval Office in the late 1970s, passed away on Sunday with the news drawing tributes from King Charles, Sir Keir Starmer and other world leaders.

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Current president Joe Biden, one of the first elected politicians to endorse Mr Carter’s bid for the presidency in 1976, said the world had “lost an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian”. Here are some key details about his life. James Earl Carter Jr was born in Plains, Georgia, in October 1924. It’s expected he will be buried in his hometown after a state funeral.

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 Rosalynn Carter
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He is considered one of the last of the so-called Greatest Generation, for babies born from 1901 to 1927. Born in 1942, Joe Biden is part of the next generation, the Silent Generation. Mr Carter was born into a family peanut farming business. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — he won an appointment to the US Naval Academy, graduating in 1946.

 [FILE PHOTO: President Bill Clinton presents former President Jimmy Carter with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the Carter Center in Atlanta]
Image Credit: The Standard [FILE PHOTO: President Bill Clinton presents former President Jimmy Carter with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the Carter Center in Atlanta]

That same year, he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Mr Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains.

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