Jimmy carter presidency facts
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Jimmy carter presidency facts
When Jimmy Carterpassed away on December 29, 2024, he bore the distinctions of longest-lived U.S. president (100 years old), longest-married president (77 years) and longest post-presidency period (43 years). Yet it’s not just his longevity that makes Carter stand out from other commanders-in-chief.
It’s also his origins.
“He began to run for the presidency with no national reputation,” says Robert Strong, an emeritus professor at Washington and Lee University. “When he told the people closest to him that he was going to run for president, there’s a story that Miss Lillian, his mother, said: ‘President of what?’”
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After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1953, Carter returned to his hometown of Plains, Georgia to run his family’s peanut farming business. There, he began his political career on the Sumter County school board.
He won a seat on the Georgia State Senate in 1962, and was elected governor