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Jimmy Carter, the thirty ninth US president who later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has died on the age of 100, the Carter Heart mentioned on Sunday.
He died peacefully on Sunday at his residence in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his household, the human rights organisation he based mentioned in a press release.
Carter was the longest-living president in US historical past, having celebrated his one centesimal birthday on October 1 this 12 months.
His dying came to visit a 12 months after his spouse of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, handed away in November 2023, and greater than a 12 months and a half after the ailing former president entered hospice care, in February 2023.
“My father was a hero, not solely to me however to everybody who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” Chip Carter, the previous president’s son, mentioned Sunday.
The announcement got here simply weeks earlier than Donald Trump is because of start his second time period within the White Home. The Carter Heart mentioned in October that Carter, a life-long Democrat, had solid his mail-in poll for Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent.
US President Joe Biden joined a flood of tributes, saying Carter “saved, lifted and adjusted the lives of individuals all throughout the globe”.
Trump mentioned on his Fact Social platform that “the challenges Jimmy confronted as President got here at a pivotal time for our nation and he did every thing in his energy to enhance the lives of all Individuals. For that, all of us owe him a debt of gratitude.”
Carter’s presidency was marred by spiralling inflation and a hostage disaster in Iran. The Democrat misplaced re-election to Republican Ronald Reagan in a landslide in 1980.
Within the many years after he left workplace, nevertheless, Carter received widespread admiration for his intensive humanitarian work from home and overseas. He based the Carter Heart, the influential pro-democracy and human rights organisation, and have become one of the vital outstanding volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, the inexpensive housing charity.
Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 “for enterprise peace negotiations, campaigning for human rights and dealing for social welfare”.
Carter light from public view within the years main as much as his dying. He visited Washington in 2018 to attend the state funeral of George HW Bush and endorsed Biden for president in 2020 with an audio message that was performed on the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
President Biden and First Woman Jill Biden visited the Carters at their residence in 2021. The Bidens attended a memorial service for Rosalynn Carter, alongside the previous president, at Emory College in Atlanta in November 2023.
The Carter Heart mentioned in February 2023 that “after a sequence of brief hospital stays,” the previous president had determined to forego medical therapy and enter hospice therapy at residence. Carter had undergone most cancers therapy and suffered a number of falls in recent times.
In Might 2024, Jason Carter mentioned his grandfather was “actually bodily restricted” and “coming to the top”. He additionally nodded to the previous president’s spiritual convictions, saying: “There’s part of that religion journey that you simply solely can dwell on the very finish and I feel he has been there in that house.”
After dropping his re-election bid in 1980, Carter returned to a modest, two-bedroom ranch home within the small city of Plains, Georgia, the place the native inhabitants is round 800 folks, and he taught Sunday faculty on the native church nicely into his 90s.
Each the previous president and his spouse had been born and raised in Plains.
Jimmy Carter will likely be buried in a non-public ceremony within the small city — about 150 miles south of Atlanta — after a state funeral in Washington and a public occasion in Atlanta, the Carter Heart mentioned Sunday.
