The career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be remembered for many things: his peanut-farming background, his speedy rise to political fame and fall after ...

Jimmy Carter’s background is unlike that of any other U.S. president. Before stepping into the Oval Office, he had a career that connected him to one of the most advanced fields of his time ...

Jimmy Carter's legacy as a president and philanthropic ... of how he blended his compassion for people and his scientific background as an engineer. "He believed in science, he believed in ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Johnny Jones found out about Jimmy Carter’s death within a matter of minutes. That’s how it works in a small town, even for a former U.S. president and Nobel Peace Prize ...

Ga., seeks to posthumously award former President Jimmy Carter the Congressional Gold Medal. At least half of Georgia’s ...

Inside the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park on the ... “I don’t know that somebody now could come from this kind of a background and get where he was,” Jenkins said.

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and a grueling 1980 reelection fight — President Jimmy Carter elevated the independence of a country in southern Africa as a top agenda item. Carter hosted ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president. Then the 1976 Democratic nominee brought up sex and sin as he ...

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his ...

(AP Photo/Jim Wells) In the flood of tributes following Jimmy Carter’s passing, one major aspect of his ... challenges facing America’s heartland on a very personal level. This background informed his ...

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly ... “President Carter, with a political background, was able to do far more in global health than we ...