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.
\nThe 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.
\n\u201cOur founder, former US President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,\u201d the center simply said in posting about Carter\u2019s death on the social media platform X.
\nBusinessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world \u2014 Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation\u2019s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s.
\n\u201cMy faith demands \u2014 this is not optional \u2014 my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,\u201d Carter once said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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