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About Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
Jimmy Carter was an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Georgia State Senate from 1967 to 1971 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to live to 100 years of age.
Carter was born and raised in Plains, Georgia. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946 and joined the U.S. Navy's submarine service. Carter returned home after his military service and revived his family's peanut-growing business. Opposing racial segregation, Carter supported the growing civil rights movement, and became an activist within the Democratic Party. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967 and then as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. As a dark-horse candidate not well known outside Georgia, Carter won the Democratic nomination and narrowly defeated the incumbent president, Gerald Ford of the Republican Party, in the 1976 presidential election.
Carter pardoned all Vietnam War draft evaders on his second day in office. He created a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. Carter successfully pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. He also confronted stagflation. His administration established the U.S. Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He is the only president to serve a full term without appointing a justice to the Supreme Court. The end of his presidency was marked by the Iran hostage crisis, an energy crisis, the Three Mile Island accident, the Nicaraguan Revolution, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In response to the invasion, Carter escalated the Cold War by ending détente, imposing a grain embargo against the Soviets, enunciating the Carter Doctrine, and leading the multinational boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Carter defeated challenger Ted Kennedy in the 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries but lost the general election in a landslide to Ronald Reagan, the Republican nominee.
After leaving the presidency, Carter established the Carter Center to promote and expand human rights; in 2002 he received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in relation to it. He traveled extensively to conduct peace negotiations, monitor elections, and further the eradication of infectious diseases. Carter was a key figure in the nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity. He also wrote numerous books, ranging from political memoirs to poetry, while continuing to comment on global affairs, including two books on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Polls of historians and political scientists generally rank Carter as a below-average president, though scholars and the public more favorably view his post-presidency, which was the longest in U.S. history.
Family life
James Earl Carter Jr. was born October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, at the Wise Sanitarium, where his mother worked as a registered nurse. Carter thus became the first American president born in a hospital. He was the eldest child of Bessie Lillian Gordy and James Earl Carter Sr., and a descendant of English immigrant Thomas Carter, who settled in the Colony of Virginia in 1635. In Georgia, numerous generations of Carters worked as cotton farmers. His father was a successful local businessman who ran a general store and was an investor in farmland. Carter's father had previously served as a reserve second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I.
During Carter's infancy, his family moved several times, settling on a dirt road in nearby Archery, which was almost entirely populated by impoverished African American families. Carter got along well with his parents even though his mother was often absent during his childhood since she worked long hours, and although his father was staunchly pro-segregation, he allowed Jimmy to befriend the black farmhands' children.
Carter had three younger siblings, all of whom died of pancreatic cancer: sisters Gloria Spann (1926–1990) and Ruth Stapleton (1929–1983), and brother Billy Carter (1937–1988).[473] He was first cousin to politician Hugh Carter and a distant cousin to the Carter family of musicians. He is related to Motown founder Berry Gordy by way of their white great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy, who had a relationship with a black female slave he owned.
Carter married Rosalynn Smith on July 7, 1946, in the Plains Methodist Church, the church of Rosalynn's family. They had three sons, Jack, James III "Chip", and Donnel; one daughter, Amy; nine grandsons (one of whom predeceased Jimmy), three granddaughters, five great-grandsons, and eight great-granddaughters. Mary Prince, an African American woman wrongly convicted of murder and later pardoned, was their daughter Amy's nanny for most of the period from 1971 until Jimmy Carter's presidency ended. Carter had asked to be designated as her parole officer, thus helping to enable her to work in the White House.
The Carters celebrated their 77th anniversary on July 7, 2023. On October 19, 2019, they became the longest-wed presidential couple, having overtaken George and Barbara Bush at 26,765 days. After Rosalynn's death on November 19, 2023, Carter released the following statement:
"Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me."
The Carters' eldest son, Jack Carter, was the 2006 Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Nevada and lost to Republican incumbent John Ensign. Jack's son Jason Carter is a former Georgia state senator, and in 2014 was the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia, losing to the Republican incumbent, Nathan Deal. On December 20, 2015, while teaching a Sunday school class, Carter announced that his 28-year-old grandson Jeremy Carter had died of unspecified causes.
On December 29, 2024, Carter's son, James E. Carter III, announced his death. This followed his decision in February of 2023 to enter hospice care after being diagnosed with melanoma that metastasized to his brain and liver.
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Sources
- Ancestry.com. 1930 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. < link > Accessed 3 January 2025.
- Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. < link > Accessed 3 January 2025.
- Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. < link > Accessed 3 January 2025.
- Argetsinger, Amy and Roxanne Roberts. "For Fred Thompson, That Elvis Edge." Washington Post, published 21 September 2007. < link > Accessed 9 May 2022.
- "Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Passes Away at 100." The Carter Center, published 29 December 2024. < link > Accessed 1 January 2025.
- Goldstein, Joelle, Kyler Alvord, and Helen Murphy. "Jimmy Carter, Longest-Living U.S. President and Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Humanitarian, Dies at 100." People, published 29 December 2024. < link > Accessed 29 December 2024.
- "Jimmy Carter." Wikipedia, revision of 29 December 2024. < link > Accessed 29 December 2024.
- "Jimmy Carter Genealogical Information." Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. < link > Accessed 9 May 2022.
- Page, Susan. "Jimmy Carter, 39th US president and noted humanitarian, has died." USA Today, published 29 December 2024. < link > Accessed 29 December 2024.
- Sands, Leo. "11 facts about Jimmy Carter that may surprise you." The Washington Post, published 29 December 2024. < link > Accessed 1 January 2025.
- Suggs, Ernie. "Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter talk about what 75 years of love accomplishes." Atlanta Journal-Constitution, published 4 July 2021. < link > Accessed 9 May 2022.
- Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 4 2025, 1:25:20 UTC
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О Джимми Картере (русский)
Джимми Картер (англ. Jimmy Carter, полное имя Джеймс Эрл Ка́ртер — мла́дший, англ. James Earl Carter Jr.; род. 1 октября 1924, Плейнс, штат Джорджия, США) — американский государственный и политический деятель, 39-й президент США (1977—1981 гг.) от Демократической партии. Лауреат Нобелевской премии мира 2002 года. Самый долгоживущий президент в истории США. Член Американского философского общества (1991)
февраль 2023: 39-й президент США Джимми Картер отказался от дальнейшего лечения врачей и решил провести остаток жизни дома с семьей в Джорджии, «получая хосписный уход вместо дополнительного медицинского вмешательства». Об этом говорится в заявлении Центра Картера в Twitter.
Организация сообщила, что семья экс-президента поддержала это решение, она просит уважать право Картера на частную жизнь.
Джимми Картер скончался 29 декабря 2024 года у себя дома в Плейнсе, штат Джорджия в возрасте 100 лет. Его сын, Джеймс Э. Картер III, объявил о его смерти в тот же день
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Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States's Timeline
| 1924 |
October 1, 1924
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Wise Sanitarium (now the Lillian G. Carter Nursing Center), 225 Hospital Street, Plains, Sumter County, Georgia, United States
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| 1947 |
July 3, 1947
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Portsmouth, Virginia, United States
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| 1950 |
April 12, 1950
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Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, United States
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| 1952 |
August 18, 1952
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New London, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1967 |
October 19, 1967
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Plains, GA, United States
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| 2024 |
December 29, 2024
Age 100
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At home, 209 Woodland Drive, Plains, Sumter County, Georgia, United States
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