Jimmy Carter Dies at 100
Jimmy Carter, who went from peanut farmer to the 39th president of the United States has died. He was 100. Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, Fox News reported. The Carter Center, the late…
Jimmy Carter, who went from peanut farmer to the 39th president of the United States has died.
He was 100.
Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, Fox News reported.
The Carter Center, the late president’s nonprofit organization, made an announcement on X.
“Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the post read.
The cause of death is not clear at this time.
His wife, Rosalyn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023. She was 96.
The former president himself went into hospice care in February 2023. He had a “small mass” removed from his liver in August 201. Later that August, it was announced he had liver cancer that had spread throughout his body.
Carter his father, brother, and two sisters to pancreatic cancer. His mother had breast cancer, which later spread to her pancreas.
Jason Carter, Carter’s grandson, had announced in May that he thought Carter’s life was “coming to the end.”
Carter won election to the Georgia Senate in 1962. He ran for Georgia governor, but lost in 1966.