Former president and humanitarian Jimmy Carter dies at age 100. Jimmy Carter, who was a peanut farmer in Georgia, received the presidency following the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War. America’s longest-serving president died Sunday, greater than a yr after getting into hospice care, at his house in Plains, Georgia.
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Former President Jimmy Carter addresses the opening session of the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune)
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President Jimmy Carter leaves Mayor Michael Bilandic’s Bridgeport house on November 3, 1978 in Chicago. (Gerald West/Chicago Tribune)
Rosalynn Carter dies
Dustin Chambers/New York Times Former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter at their house in Plains, Georgia, on September 30, 2017. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
Rosalynn Carter dies
Ben Gray/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter stroll hand in hand again to the Habitat for Humanity building web site after attending a information convention Nov. 2, 2015, in Memphis. (Ben Gray/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)