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Jimmy Carter: A Life In Pictures
Former President Jimmy Carter marks a board to be cut as he works with the Habitat for Humanity project in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 27, 1987. | Mark Humphrey/AP
Carter, shown at age 6 with his sister Gloria, was born James Earl Carter Jr. in Plains, Georgia in 1924. Him and his three siblings were raised in rural Georgia, where electricity was rare and mule-drawn wagons were common. | AP
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter on their wedding day in 1946. They went on to have three sons and a daughter. | Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP
Carter peers at instruments aboard the USS Barracuda in 1952. He served as a submariner in both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets, rising to the rank of lieutenant. | AP
State Sen. Carter hugs his wife at his gubernatorial campaign headquarters in Atlanta in September 1966. He served two terms as a state senator and one each as governor and president. | AP
Carter takes the oath of office at the Georgia State Capitol on Jan. 21, 1971, becoming the state’s 76th governor. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he said in his inaugural address. | AP
Surrounded by state senators, Gov. Carter reaches for a pen on Feb. 25, 1972 to sign a resolution outlining Georgia’s opposition to busing as a means to integrate schools. | AP
Gov. Carter does a high kick with some of the Rockettes in September 1973 at Radio City Music Hall in New York before a performance. | Richard Drew/AP
Carter holds a copy of the Milwaukee Sentinel in April 1976 that says he lost the previous night’s Wisconsin primary to Arizona Rep. Mo Udall (he did not). Victory and concession speeches had been made; so had several predictions by major news outlets. | Paul Shane/AP
Neighbors in Carter’s hometown — Plains, Georgia — cheer as he accepts the Democratic nomination for president on July 14, 1976. | Mark Foley/AP
Carter shows off his catch during an August 1976 fishing trip on his property in Plains, Georgia. The Carters were fishing with nets because the pond had been drained to manage the fish population. | Peter Bregg/AP
A crowd watches as Carter is sworn in as president on Jan 20, 1977. | AP
A reception is held at the White House on Oct. 3, 1978, to honor the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Shown singing during the reception are, from left, first lady Rosalynn Carter, President Carter, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King Jr.’s sister Christine King Farris and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young. | Barry Thumma/AP
Carter speaks with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (right) during a summit at Camp David on Sept. 6, 1978. The trio hammered out the Camp David Accords during the summit, ending the war between Israel and Egypt. | AP
Carter, a trained nuclear engineer, inspects the control room of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on April 1, 1979 — four days after the infamous accident at the plant. | AP
Carter jogs at Prairie Du Chien High School in Wisconsin in August 1979. The previous morning, he jogged aboard the steamboat he was vacationing on, but fellow passengers complained about the noise. So, he took to the land and ran 4 miles, according to The Washington Post. | Barry Thumma/AP
Carter bows his head during a prayer service at Washington Cathedral on Nov. 15, 1979, for the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. To his right are Vice President Walter Mondale and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. | Ira Schwarz/AP Photo
Carter watches as a man dumps ashes from a bag during a briefing on the SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) II treaty at the White House, on Nov. 29, 1979. The president continued the briefing after the man was removed by a Secret Service agent. | Barry Thumma/AP
Carter prepares to tell the nation about a failed mission to rescue Americans held hostage in Iran, on April 25, 1980. “We have been disappointed before,” he said. “We will not give up.” | AP
Carter, shown on a television at the Reagan-Bush headquarters in Los Angeles on Nov. 5, 1980, concedes defeat to Ronald Reagan in the presidential election. | AP
By 1982, the Carters had left the White House and politics. But the presidency — and Secret Service agents — kept following them, even on this Caribbean cruise. | Ray Fairall/AP
Cuban President Fidel Castro calls for time as Carter prepares to throw the first pitch in a baseball game in Havana on May 14, 2002. At that time, Carter was the only American leader – in or out of office – to visit Cuba since Castro’s 1959 revolution. | Adalberto Roque/AFP via Getty Images
Prior to the Nobel banquet in Oslo, Norway in December 2002, Nobel Peace Prize winner Carter and his wife greet well-wishers during a torchlight procession. The prize was awarded to Carter for his decades of effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts and advance democracy and human rights. | Pool photo by Erlend Aas
Carter leans on a wall as he helps build a Habitat for Humanity house in Violet, La., on May 21, 2007. | Alex Brandon/AP
During a 90th birthday celebration in Americus, Georgia, on Oct. 4, 2014, Carter cuts his birthday cake. | Branden Camp/AP
Carter prepares to lay a wreath on the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in May 2015. After brokering Israel’s first peace treaty with an Arab neighbor — Egypt — in 1979, Carter had hoped to be a conduit for peace in the region. | Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images
The Carters pose for a photo with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the home of the Carters in Plains, Georgia, on April 30, 2021. | Adam Schultz/The White House via AP
