Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter dies at 100

The 39th president of the United States Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 Sunday afternoon according to his son James.

Carter was elected to presidential office in 1976 after holding the positions of Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967 and state governor from 1971 to 1975.

The former peanut farmer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his “decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called Carter “thoughtful and generous” and a “lifelong humanitarian.”

Jimmy Carter’s legacy is one of compassion, kindness, empathy, and hard work. He served others both at home and around the world his entire life — and he loved doing it. He was always thoughtful and generous with his advice to me.

My deepest condolences to the Carter family,…

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 29, 2024

In 1978, President Carter was instrumental in coordinating the Camp David Accords, political agreements between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. For 12 days secret negotiations took place at Camp David, a presidential country retreat in Maryland.

In the early 1980s, Carter and his beloved wife Eleanor Rosalynn founded the Jimmy Carter Work Project (later renamed Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project), an annual home building campaign organized by Habitat for Humanity International.

Rosalynn Carter died in November 2023.

Jimmy Carter turned 100 on Oct. 1, making him the longest-lived U.S. president in American history.

For the past decade Carter had been battling the skin cancer melanoma and metastatic melanoma, the cancer having spread to other parts of his body.

He had been in hospice care for nearly two years in his home in Plains, GA when he passed.

Jimmy Carter will receive a state funeral early in the New Year. It will start in Plains on Jan. 4 and he will lie in repose in Atlanta for a few days before being flown to Washington, D.C. where he will lie in state on Jan. 7-8.

The funeral service will take place at the National Cathedral in Washington on Jan. 9 and he will be laid to rest in Georgia later the same day.

President Joe Biden has declared Jan. 9 to be a National Day of Mourning.

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