Jimmy Carter

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.

Jimmy Carter, who rose from Georgia farmland to become the 39th president of the United States on a promise of national healing after the wounds of Watergate and Vietnam, then lost the White House in a cauldron of economic turmoil at home and crisis in Iran, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100.

ATLANTA — Nearly a decade ago, Jimmy Carter said he hoped to outlive a parasitic worm once responsible for inflicting pain on millions of people around the world every year. At the time, as the former U.S. president successfully battled cancer, Guinea worm disease had nearly been wiped out thanks in large part to the efforts of the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit he founded with his ...

Signs that read “Happy 100th Birthday Mr. President!” dot lawns. The local general store is stocking up on its famous peanut butter ice cream. And the population of this tiny southwestern Georgia town is expected to double for a day.

As former President Jimmy Carter nears his 100th birthday, his physical health is diminished, but he remains interested in current news — especially politics — and is aware of the well-wishes coming his way after 19 months in home hospice care.

Country music crooners, Southern rockers, hip-hop artists and other musicians have waived their fees to take part in an Atlanta concert to mark Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday and raise funds for one of the former president’s most cherished undertakings.

Jimmy Carter’s eldest grandchild has given an update on his health, more than a year after the former President entered hospice care. Jason Carter, 48, told Southern Living last week that the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who at 99 is the oldest living U.S. president in history, is not awake every day but is “experiencing the world as best he can as he continues through his process” without late wife Rosalynn by his side. 

PLAINS, Ga. – Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died this month at age 96, was laid to rest Wednesday in Plains, Georgia, the tiny farm town where she met Jimmy Carter as an infant, married him as a teenager and where they returned after the White House.