Jimmy Carter, Former President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Turns 100
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has turned 100. Tuesday’s milestone marks the first time an American president has turned 100, according to the Associated Press . For the past 19 months, Carter…
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, has turned 100.
Tuesday’s milestone marks the first time an American president has turned 100, according to the Associated Press.
For the past 19 months, Carter has been in home hospice care in Plains, Georgia.
He served as president for one term from 1977 to 1981. After leaving the White House, he worked more than 40 years as head of The Carter Center, which was founded by Carter and his wife Rosalynn in 1982. The purpose of the center is to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope.”
Jason Carter, the former president’s grandson, praised on his grandfather’s longevity.
“Not everybody gets 100 Years on this earth, and when somebody does, and when they use that time to do so much good for so many people, it’s worth celebrating,” Jason Carter, chairman of The Carter Center governing board, said.
“These last few months, 19 months, now that he’s been in hospice, it’s been a chance for our family to reflect,” he added, “and then for the rest of the country and the world to really reflect on him. That’s been a really gratifying time.”
Carter was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, where he has lived more than 80 years. He is expected to mark his birthday in the one-story home he and Rosalynn built in the early 1960s before he was elected to the Georgia state Senate.