Jimmy Carter, The 39th U.s. President, Has Died At 100

BILL BARROW / AP, Time: Politics
Sun, 12/29/2024 - 2:36pm

ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023, spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Our founder, former U.S.

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