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The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, has passed away on his 100th birthday, the Carter Center announced on Sunday.
He died peacefully at his home in Georgia Plains on Sunday, surrounded by his family, the human rights organization he founded said in a statement.
Carter, who celebrated his 100th birthday on October 1 this year, was the longest-serving president in American history.
His death comes a year before his wife of 77 years, Rosalyn Carter, passed away in November 2023, and more than a year and a half after the ailing former president entered hospice care in February 2023.
“My father was a hero not only to me, but to all who believe in peace, human rights and selfless love,” Chip Carter, the former president’s son, said Sunday.
The announcement comes just weeks before Donald Trump begins his second term in the White House. The Carter Center said in October that Carter had cast a mail-in vote for Kamala Harris, Trump’s longest-serving Democratic opponent.
CarterHis own presidency has been plagued by high inflation and a hostage crisis in Iran. The Democrats lost to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980 by a landslide.
In the decades since Carter left office, however, he has won praise for his extensive humanitarian work at home and abroad. founded Carter Centerthe influential democracy and human rights organization, and became one of the most prominent volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, an affordable housing charity.
Carter In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “conducting peace negotiations, campaigning for human rights and working for social welfare”.
Carter faded from public view in the years before his death. In the year In 2018, he visited Washington to attend the state funeral of George HW Bush and endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 in an audio message played at the Democratic National Convention.
President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited the Carters at their home in 2021. The Bidens attended a memorial service for Rosalyn Carter with the former president at Emory University in Atlanta in November 2023.
News of the former president’s death comes more than a year and a half after the Carter Center announced in February 2023 that “after a series of short hospital stays,” the former president decided to forgo medical treatment and enter hospice care at home. Carter underwent cancer treatment and suffered several falls in recent years.
In May 2024, Jason Carter said his grandfather was “really limited physically” and “coming to the end.” He also alluded to the former president’s religious faith, saying, “There’s a part of that faith journey where you live at the end and I think it was in that place.”
In the year After winning his re-election bid in 1980, Carter moved back to a modest two-room ranch house in Plains, Georgia, home to about 800 people. His 90s.
The former president and his wife were born and raised in the plains.
Jimmy Carter will be buried in a private ceremony in the small town about 150 miles south of Atlanta — after a Washington state funeral home and public gatherings in Atlanta, the Carter Center said Sunday.
