Former President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter, is dead, reports thegazellenews.com
Carter, who was the 39th President of the US died early hours of Sunday, 29 December, 2024 at the age of 100.
As at the time of his death, thegazellenews.com can report that he was the oldest lived US President in history and the first to reach the age of 100.
Born on October 1, 1924, James Earl Carter, he was an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States, from 1977 to 1981.
A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Georgia State Senate from 1967 to 1971 and as the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to live to 100 years of age.
Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy’s submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family’s peanut-growing business.
Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975.
As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent president, Gerald Ford of the Republican Party, in the 1976 presidential election.
Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He is the only president to serve a full term without appointing a justice to the Supreme Court.
The end of his presidency was marked by the Iran hostage crisis, an energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War by ending détente, imposing a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciating the Carter Doctrine, and leading the multinational boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Carter defeated challenger Ted Kennedy in the 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries but lost the general election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee.
James Earl Carter Jr. was born in Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse.
Carter thus became the first American president born in a hospital. He is the eldest child of Bessie Lillian Gordy and James Earl Carter Sr., and a descendant of English immigrant Thomas Carter, who settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1635.
Carter attended Plains High School from 1937 to 1941, graduating from the eleventh grade since the school did not have a twelfth grade. He had @long dreamed of attending the United States Naval Academy.
In 1941, he started undergraduate coursework in engineering at Georgia Southwestern College in nearby Americus, Georgia.The next year, Carter transferred to the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where civil rights icon Blake Van Leer was president.
While at Georgia Tech, Carter took part in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
In 1943, he received an appointment to the Naval Academy from U.S. Representative Stephen Pace, and Carter graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1946. He was a good student but was seen as reserved and quiet, in contrast to the academy’s culture of aggressive hazing of freshmen.
While at the Academy, Carter fell in love with Rosalynn Smith, a friend of his sister Ruth.The two wed shortly after his graduation in 1946, and were married until her death on November 19, 2023.
May his soul rest in peace
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