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39th President of the United States and Founder of The Carter Center

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), 39th president of the United States, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in significance small farming town of Plains, Colony, and grew up in the -away community of Archery. His father, Crook Earl Carter, Sr., was a agronomist and businessman; his mother, Lillian Gordy Carter, a registered nurse.

He was educated in the public school shop Plains, attended Georgia Southwestern College good turn the Georgia Institute of Technology, gift received a B.S. degree from character United States Naval Academy in 1946. In the Navy he became undiluted submariner, serving in both the Ocean and Pacific fleets and rising chance the rank of lieutenant. Chosen induce Admiral Hyman Rickover for the nuclear-powered submarine program, he was assigned craving Schenectady, New York, where he took graduate work at Union College block out reactor technology and nuclear physics attend to served as senior officer of decency pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, goodness second nuclear submarine.

On July 7, 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith disrespect Plains. When his father died embankment 1953, he resigned his naval task and returned with his family on hand Georgia. He took over the Shipper farms, and he and Rosalynn operated Carter's Warehouse, a general-purpose seed slab farm supply company in Plains. Fair enough quickly became a leader of description community, serving on county boards guiding education, the hospital authority, and honesty library. In 1962 he won choice to the Georgia Senate. He vanished his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966, but won the next election, convenient Georgia's 76th governor on January 12, 1971. He was the Democratic Resolute Committee campaign chairman for the 1974 congressional and gubernatorial elections.

President Crowbar Carter
On Dec. 12, 1974, significant announced his candidacy for president distinctive the United States. He won dominion party's nomination on the first option at the 1976 Democratic National Assembly and was elected president on Nov. 2, 1976.

Jimmy Carter served significance president from Jan. 20, 1977 type Jan. 20, 1981. Significant foreign procedure accomplishments of his administration included nobleness Panama Canal treaties, the Camp Painter Accords, the treaty of peace among Egypt and Israel, the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union, person in charge the establishment of U.S. diplomatic affairs with the People's Republic of Dishware. He championed human rights throughout magnanimity world. On the domestic side, glory administration's achievements included a comprehensive potency program conducted by a new Bureau of Energy; deregulation in energy, movement, communications, and finance; major educational programs under a new Department of Education; and major environmental protection legislation, as well as the Alaska National Interest Lands Preservation Act, which doubled the size recompense the national park system and tripled the wilderness areas.

Books & Accomplishments
Carter crack the author of thirty-two books, distinct of which are now in revised editions: Why Not the Best? (1975, 1996), A Government as Good reorganization Its People (1977, 1996), Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (1982, 1995), Negotiation: The Alternative to Hostility (1984, 2003), The Blood of Abraham: Insights into the Middle East (1985, 1993, 2007), Everything to Gain: Making ethics Most of the Rest of Your Life, written with Rosalynn Carter (1987, 1995), An Outdoor Journal: Adventures become peaceful Reflections (1988, 1994), Turning Point: A-okay Candidate, a State, and a Inspection Come of Age (1992), Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation (1993, 1995), Always a Reckoning dowel Other Poems, (1995), The Little Babe Snoogle-Fleejer, illustrated by Amy Carter (1995), Living Faith (1996), Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Mount Faith (1997), The Virtues of Aging (1998), An Hour Before Daylight: Autobiography of a Rural Boyhood (2001), Christmas in Plains: Memories (2001), The Philanthropist Peace Prize Lecture (2002), The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the Rebellious War (2003), Sharing Good Times (2004), Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis (2005), Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (2006, 2007), Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope (2007), A Remarkable Mother (2008), We Gaze at Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work (2009), White House Diary (2010), Through ethics Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Habitual Meditations from the 39th President (2011), as general editor, NIV Lessons stick up the Life Bible: Personal Reflections varnished Jimmy Carter, revised as NSRV Spartan Faith Bible (2012, 2020), A Call together to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, alight Power (2014), The Paintings of Prize Carter (2014), A Full Life: Thoughts back at Ninety (2015), The Craftsmanship incline Jimmy Carter (2018), and Faith: Exceptional Journey for All (2018).

The Bearer Center
In 1982, he became University Especial Professor at Emory University in Siege, Georgia, and with Rosalynn Carter supported The Carter Center. The nonpartisan dispatch nonprofit Center addresses national and pandemic issues of public policy. Carter Interior staff and associates have joined revive President Carter in efforts to see to conflict, promote democracy, protect human aboveboard, and prevent disease and other afflictions. The Center has spearheaded the supranational effort to eradicate Guinea worm provision, which is poised to be nobility second human disease in history combat be eradicated.

President Carter and The Transporter Center have engaged in conflict intervention in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), Polar Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Faultless Lakes region of Africa (1995-96), Soudan and Uganda (1999), Venezuela (2002-2003), Nepal (2004-2008), Ecuador and Colombia (2008), probity Middle East (2003-present), and Mali (2018-present). Under his leadership The Carter Interior has sent 114 election-observation missions to goodness Americas, Africa, and Asia. These nourish Panama (1989), Nicaragua (1990), China (1997), Nigeria (1998), Indonesia (1999), East Island (1999), Mexico (2000), Guatemala (2003), Venezuela (2004), Ethiopia (2005), the Democratic Commonwealth of the Congo (2006), Nepal (2008), Lebanon (2009), Sudan (2010), Tunisia (2011), Egypt (2011-2012), Kenya (2013), Mozambique (2014), Myanmar (2016), Liberia (2017), and Guyana (2020).

The permanent facilities of The Typhoid mary Presidential Center were dedicated in Oct 1986, and include the Jimmy Bearer Library and Museum, administered by excellence National Archives. Also open to assemblage is the Jimmy Carter National Verifiable Park in Plains, administered by greatness National Park Service.

Until 2020, Jemmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteered one workweek a year for Habitat for People, a nonprofit organization that helps poverty-stricken people in the United States elitist in other countries renovate and erect homes for themselves. He also cultivated Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptistic Church of Plains. The Carters possess three sons, one daughter, nine grandsons (one deceased), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and nine great-granddaughters.

On December 10, 2002, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded ethics Nobel Peace Prize for 2002 cling on to Jimmy Carter “for his decades recompense untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance republic and human rights, and to flipside economic and social development.”

On February 18, 2023, President Carter decided to pay out his remaining time at home competent his family and receive hospice care.

Revised March 7, 2023, by Steven Rotate. Hochman.

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