Former President Jimmy Carter passed on Sunday at the age of 100. He was the 39th president, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and though he only served one term in the White House, his career post presidency was robust. Carter recently made news after saying that he wanted to live long enough to cast his vote in the general election for Vice President Kamala Harris. He was preceded in death a little more than a year ago by his wife Rosalyn, who was 96 when she died in November 2023.
Carter came to Washington, DC in 1976 after serving as governor of Georgia. He died at his home in Plains, Georgia, per his son James 'Chip' E. Carter III. Carter had been in hospice care since being discharged from hospital treatment in February 2023. He decided to spend his remaining days at home rather than attempting to medically extend his already long life. His Carter Center lives on without him.
In 1980, Carter lost his bid for a second term to California Governor Ronald Reagan, who ushered in the politically conservative, if socially libertine, 1980s. Carter's presidency, puncutated by oil and hostage crises, inflated gas and energy prices, and a speech where he told Americans struggling to heat their homes to put on a sweater, was seen as a failure.
The nation veered away from what was then a burgeoning nuclear power industry when there was a meltdown at Three Miles Island in central Pennsylvania. When Iranian forces siezed the US Embassy in Tehran, 52 Americans were taken hostage and they were not released until after Carter's tenure, on the day he left office and Reagan took over. This was widely seen as a pivotal issue during the election season.
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