According to his nonprofit organization, Jimmy Carter, the 100-year-old former US president and Nobel Peace Prize winner who led the country from 1977 to 1981 after rising from modest beginnings in rural Georgia, passed away on Sunday.
Since mid-February 2023, Carter had been receiving hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, the same tiny community where he was born, where he had previously operated a peanut farm before being elected governor of the Peach State and entering the presidential race.
Carter passed away “peacefully” at his Plains home “surrounded by his family,” according to a statement from the Carter Center.
“My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights and unselfish love,” Chip Carter said in the statement.
Carter was the longest-lived US president an outcome that seemed unlikely back in 2015 when the Southern Democrat revealed he had brain cancer.
However, after four years in the White House that were frequently viewed as underwhelming, the US Navy veteran and devout Christian consistently beat the odds to enjoy a lengthy and productive post-presidency.
Carter made a dedication to social justice and human rights during his one term. He had a successful first two years, helping to broker the Camp David Accords, a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel.
However, his government had several difficulties, chief among them the 1980 unsuccessful attempt to free the 52 American hostages and the capture of US hostages in Iran. He was also criticized for how he handled the oil crisis.
Republican challenger Ronald Reagan clobbered Carter at the polls in November of that year, relegating the Democrat to just one term. Reagan, a former actor and California governor, came to power with a strong conservative platform.
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