Jimmy Carter

Aside from Bing Crosby, few Spokanites have shaken hands with more dignitaries, politicians, athletes and celebrities than Jamie Weaver.

The nation began its formal farewell to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, as the casket carrying the former president started its journey along the rural roads of south Georgia, where he spent much of his life, and onward to Atlanta, where his body will lie in public repose ahead of a state funeral in Washington next week.

During the bruising 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter called President Gerald Ford “incompetent” and his policies “morally and politically and intellectually bankrupt.”

As the sun rose Monday for the first time in a century without Jimmy Carter, it illuminated flowers and a can of peanuts placed by mourners at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta.

U.S. stock markets will close Jan. 9, in observance of a national day of mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.

Regional lawmakers expressed their condolences, sharing memories and accomplishments of former President Jimmy Carter punctuated social media Sunday after the 39th president died at 100 as the oldest-living U.S. president in history.

On Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he called “an altogether new, unwanted, and potentially empty life.” But Carter would rewrite his legacy by turning to his implacable faith.

As president, Jimmy Carter visited Spokane to celebrate one if its best environmental achievements of the last century and to offer help after one of its worst environmental disasters.