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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has died. He died peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia, “surrounded by his family,” the Carter Center said in a statement Sunday.
Carter, 100, became the oldest living former president in US history in March 2019, surpassing George H.W. Bush. He was the first American president to reach triple digits.
Carter was a peanut farmer and US Navy lieutenant before going into politics, eventually serving one term as governor of Georgia and as president of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Rosalynn Carter, the former pres
ident’s wife of more than 75 years, who was known for her mental health advocacy and humanitarian work, died in November 2023 at 96. The Carters were the longest-married presidential couple in US history.
The accomplishments during the presidency of Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, are “unparalleled” in the past century, his biographer said Sunday.
“His accomplishments are quite amazing. And unparalleled, I would argue, in this century,” Carter biographer Kai Bird said, after listing several of the former president’s biggest accomplishments.
Bird argued Carter “created the modern vice presidency” and made the controversial decision to appoint Paul Volcker chairman of the Federal Reserve “knowing that Volcker was going to jack up interest rates and restrict the money supply in a way that would be perhaps disastrous to his own reelection bid.”
He also pointed to Carter’s foreign policy decisions, including treaties declaring the canal neutral and open to all vessels and providing for joint US-Panamanian control of the territory until the end of 1999, when Panama would be given full control — an issue recently politicized by President-elect Donald Trump.
Source: CNN
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